stingy
adjective
reluctant to give or spend; not generous; penurious.
stingily
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a word derived from
stingy.
Example Sentences
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It’s also got a good public restroom, which is no small luxury — in my opinion, bathrooms on King County trails are too sparse, stingily parceled out for fast-moving bicyclists, not 3-mile-an-hour pedestrians.
From Seattle Times ● Aug. 27, 2022
They stingily pick which cases go on the docket, and how they are framed and scheduled.
From Fox News ● Sep. 19, 2020
More stingily, you could turn to Fran Lebowitz’s first essay collection, “Metropolitan Life,” which includes a three-paragraph harrumph titled “Clothes with Pictures and/or Writing on Them: Yes—Another Complaint.”
From The New Yorker ● Jun. 21, 2018
Instead, he read the current statute as stingily as possible, concluding that it did, indeed, allow the government to detain all three groups of immigrants indefinitely.
From Slate ● Feb. 28, 2018
His very sleep was stingily meted out to him.
From The Childrens' Story of the War, Volume 1 (of 10) From the Beginning of the War to the Landing of the British Army in France by James Edward Parrott
