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Meanings of stingy in English

Portuguese
escasso
Catalan
raquític
Spanish
escaso

Deficient in amount or quality or extent.

Related terms
escasso
Portuguese
ávaro
Catalan
ronyós
Spanish
rancio

Unwilling to spend.

Related terms
ávaro
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Examples for "ungenerous"
Examples for "ungenerous"
1
The conduct of the majority, in my opinion, is inconsistent and ungenerous.
Autobiography and Letters of Orville Dewey, D.D. / Edited by His...
2
This definite and apparently final decision for the narrow and the ungenerous.
The Conflict
3
There was nothing in the least mean or ungenerous about Arthur Carroll.
The Debtor: A Novel
4
The circumstances of our meeting is my apology for the ungenerous thought.
Ellen Walton / Or, The Villain and His Victims
5
I called you ungenerous, and I meant it, and so you were.
The Imaginary Marriage
Usage of stingy in English
1
One thing about Arthur: with respect to being stingy, he was consistent.
With friends like these
2
The harvest was scanty, the Nile stingy in his bounty this year.
The Memoirs of Cleopatra
3
The Rangers overwhelmed a notoriously stingy team and left their coach impressed.
Reuters
4
One was too large, the other too small, and both were stingy.
Helen of troy
5
The clique which had rated his reticence stingy was eager to believe.
Winner Take All
6
He sure was stingy and the meanest white man I ever seed.
Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States...
7
These people, the Eneeshurs, were stingy, inhospitable, and overbearing in their ways.
First Across the Continent / The Story of the Exploring Expediti...
8
He is proud and cold, and, between ourselves, stingy in money matters.
The Haunted Hotel: A Mystery of Modern Venice
9
Dolly wasn't stingy with gasoline, but her tank was built for travel.
Silver zombie: delilah street: paranormal investigator
10
The man who means everything he says is generally a stingy talker.
The Silly Syclopedia / A Terrible Thing in the Form of a Literar...
11
Some fellows-thestingy sort-willsave up their parcels against a rainy day.
The Better Germany in War Time: Being Some Facts Towards Fellows...
12
If I lost a wife at all, it was a stingy one.
The Portent and Other Stories
13
This firm is too stingy to keep a full force of clerks.
For Gold or Soul? The Story of a Great Department Store
14
Mr. Perkins was a close manager but not stingy with his wife.
A Little Girl in Old Boston
15
The old Kreders were to an Irish nature, a stingy, dirty couple.
Three Lives / Stories of The Good Anna, Melanctha and The Gentle...
16
He would not even give away a secret, he was so stingy.
Pee-wee Harris Adrift
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Stingy through the time
Stingy across language varieties
United Kingdom
Common
United States of America
Common