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Example sentences for: stingy

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A fellow who “skinned his flint” was looked upon as being a parsimonious, penny-pinching, stingy cheapskate—a veritable skinflint.
In an editorial, the paper said that "[b]etween rampant organizational chaos, a stingy funeral budget, sound and fury from the Russian Orthodox Church and a growing list of prominent no-shows, this proposed 'act of national repentance and reconciliation' is shaping up as one lousy historical event."
Campaigngate has left Democratic donors angry and stingy.)
The Post notes that "niggardly" is etymologically completely unrelated to "nigger" (it has Middle English roots and means stingy) and says that if in fact the man used the word innocently and in its correct context, then the loss of his job is "truly remarkable."
You cannot lament, as Cook does, "America's stingy attitude toward the nation's neglected and rejected people" without asking Eleanor to open up her own books.