stint
verb (used without object)
to be frugal; get along on a scanty allowance.
stinted
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past participleof stint.past participle
A verb form used in perfect and passive verb constructions and that can also function as a modifier.
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past tense formof stint.past tense
Used to describe completed actions or previous habitual actions.
stintverb (used without object)to be frugal; get along on a scanty allowance.
Example Sentences
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Five or six spring-times, welcomed joyously, lovingly watched from the first celandine to the budding of the rose; who shall dare to call it a stinted boon?
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 14, 2025
The administration also hasn’t stinted on disaster aid.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 28, 2023
Michael and Christian Blackwood began to work independently in the 1980s, but neither stinted on curiosity.
From New York Times ● Jun. 16, 2022
Or at least approaches its end, as we did on Saturday, four days before the fall equinox, on a day that may have stinted on true summer heat but supplied generous helpings of humidity.
From Washington Post ● Sep. 18, 2021
His use of figurative language was easy and natural, and not stinted; but his figures were always introduced as illustrations and not as arguments.
