Stingy

//ˈstɪnd͡ʒi//

"Stingy" in a Sentence (14 examples)

He may be rich, but he is stingy.

Shylock is greedy, and what is worse, very stingy.

Take back what you said about me being stingy.

Accordingly as people become rich, they are apt to be stingy.

Once upon a time, there lived a stingy old man in the village.

He is thrifty, not to say stingy.

He is very frugal, not to say stingy.

He is very stingy with his money.

He is not such a stingy man as he is made out to be.

She is very frugal, not to say stingy.

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"Well, I'm doing my best to grow," said Davy, "but it's a thing you can't hurry much. If Marilla wasn't so stingy with her jam I believe I'd grow a lot faster."

The realization of this joint oppression is like discovering that the stingy crusts of bread being held out by society have mold on them.

As the moon wheels around Earth every 28 days and shows us a progressively greater and then stingier slice of its sun-lightened face, the distance between the moon and Earth changes, too. At the nearest point along its egg-shaped orbit, its perigee, the moon may be 26,000 miles closer to us than it is at its far point.

Bumble bee – Bumble bee / I send to you this sonnet, / But please don't be – Bumble bee / The stingy bee in my bonnet.

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