Words similar to stingy

Example sentences for: stingy

How can you use “stingy” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

The word means "stingy" and is unrelated to the "N word," but some people had misunderstood it.
Until recently the church was stingy with annulments.
The aliens who show up in the middle of the night and abduct people are notoriously stingy with information.
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.
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."