Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. The state or quality of being stingy; extreme avarice; niggardliness; miserliness.
Wiktionary
- n. A lack of generosity.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. The quality or state of being stingy.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a lack of generosity; a general unwillingness to part with money
Examples
“Yet Congress's stinginess is being compounded by the administration's recent decision to reject a request from New York and several other states to increase food stamp outlays to the poor as fuel bills mount.”
“The last degree of stinginess is not to disturb the mildew," is a neat axiom; and "The plantain does not bear fruit twice," tells that the Malays have an inkling that "There is a tide in the affairs of men," etc.”
“Thus, miserliness is more than the English word stinginess.”
Mind and Mental Factors: The Fifty-one Types of Subsidiary Awareness
“A margin too narrow conveys the idea of stinginess, as if to economize paper, while an irregular or zigzag margin conveys the idea of carelessness or want of precision.”
Burroughs' Encyclopaedia of Astounding Facts and Useful Information, 1889
“From the root of greed stem other evil afflictions, such as stinginess, envy, hate, fraud, deceit ... known as secondary afflictions.”
“John Gibb Millspaugh suggests that it's a kind of stinginess not to let people know about the religious community that means so much to you.”
“Rothschild, the head of the great banking house in London and the chief of the syndicate, especially complained of what he called the "stinginess" of the treasury department.”
Recollections of Forty Years in the House, Senate and Cabinet An Autobiography.
“The testimony of Mr. Fletcher, his gardener, gloomy over his beer in the bar-parlours, seems to support the "stinginess" that the vicar has determined in Mr. Marrapit's character.”
“Also he accused me of "stinginess," in not wanting”
“Originally his name was used to mean "stinginess," so there was a silhouette jacket, for example, which had no pockets.”
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