stint
verb (used without object)
to be frugal; get along on a scanty allowance.
stintless
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a word derived from
stint.
Example Sentences
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Not mine the rich and showering hand, that strews The facile largess of a stintless Muse.
From The Poems of William Watson by William Watson
Her stintless passioning Lest she should lose The younglet of her dearest pang?
From Path Flower and Other Verses by Olive Tilford Dargan
And round they thrust the ponderous cheese, And the loaves of wheat and rye: None stinteth him for lack of ease— For each a stintless welcome sees, In the Baron's blythesome eye.
From The Baron's Yule Feast: A Christmas Rhyme by Thomas Cooper
The church flings forth a battled shade Over the moon-blanched sward; The church; my gift; whereto I paid My all in hand and hoard: Lavished my gains With stintless pains To glorify the Lord.
From Poems of the Past and the Present by Thomas Hardy
And round they thrust the ponderous cheese, And the loaves of wheat and rye; None stinteth him for lack of ease— For each a stintless welcome sees In the Baron's blythesome eye.
From Christmas: Its Origin and Associations Together with Its Historical Events and Festive Celebrations During Nineteen Centuries by William Francis Dawson
