STINGY in a Sentence
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Example sentences for STINGY, such as:
1. Her father is very rich and stingy.
2. There is in Moscow a lady, une dame, and she is very stingy.
3. He's really stingy and never buys the drinks when we go out.
4. I thought I was right in believing that Cavalcanti to be a stingy fellow.
5. In this century, men attend to business, they gamble on 'Change, they win money, they are stingy.'
2. There is in Moscow a lady, une dame, and she is very stingy.
3. He's really stingy and never buys the drinks when we go out.
4. I thought I was right in believing that Cavalcanti to be a stingy fellow.
5. In this century, men attend to business, they gamble on 'Change, they win money, they are stingy.'
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Meanings and Examples of STINGY
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stingy
a. deficient in amount or quality or extent
a. unwilling to spend
Classic Sentence:
1 Her father is very rich and stingy.
2 There is in Moscow a lady, une dame, and she is very stingy.
3 He gave money for the erection of temples and supplemented as far as he could the collection of alms, in regard to which the majority of members were stingy and irregular.
4 Blachevelle is very stingy; there are hardly any green peas in the market; one does not know what to eat.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context Highlight In BOOK 3: CHAPTER VI—A CHAPTER IN WHICH THEY ADORE EACH OTHER
Context Highlight In BOOK 3: CHAPTER VI—A CHAPTER IN WHICH THEY ADORE EACH OTHER
5 In this century, men attend to business, they gamble on 'Change, they win money, they are stingy.'
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context Highlight In BOOK 5: CHAPTER VI—THE TWO OLD MEN DO EVERYTHING, EACH ONE AFTER ...
Context Highlight In BOOK 5: CHAPTER VI—THE TWO OLD MEN DO EVERYTHING, EACH ONE AFTER ...
6 I thought I was right in believing that Cavalcanti to be a stingy fellow.
Example Sentence:
1 I only wish people knew that: then they wouldn't be so stingy about it.
2 He's really stingy and never buys the drinks when we go out.