Synonyms for stingy

Grammar : Adj

Spell : stin-jee

Phonetic Transcription : ˈstɪn dʒi

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Définition of stingy

Origin : "niggardly, penurious, tight-fisted," 1650s, possibly a dialectal alteration of earlier stingy "biting, sharp, stinging" (1610s), from sting (v.). Back-formation stinge "a stingy person" is recorded from 1914.

adj penny-pinching, averse to spending money

Example sentences :

And the next was when I scolded because she broke a bowl; And she said I was mean and stingy, and hadn't any soul.
Extract from : « Farm Ballads » by Will Carleton

It is an old notion that it is easier to be generous than to be stingy.
Extract from : « Quotes and Images From The Works of Charles Dudley Warner » by Charles Dudley Warner

I realized that I must have seemed like a mean, stingy old scamp.
Extract from : « Cap'n Warren's Wards » by Joseph C. Lincoln

Why, blast their miserable, stingy—What do they take me for?
Extract from : « Cy Whittaker's Place » by Joseph C. Lincoln

My wife left me because she said I was stingy, and she took my child—my only daughter.
Extract from : « Philo Gubb Correspondence-School Detective » by Ellis Parker Butler

Each was occupied with his own thoughts, and each was stingy of his breath.
Extract from : « The Gaunt Gray Wolf » by Dillon Wallace

I may be as stingy as they call me, but for all that I 'd stand to a man who stands to me.
Extract from : « Barrington » by Charles James Lever

"That comes for being too stingy to buy a morning paper," added Sam.
Extract from : « The Rover Boys in the Air » by Edward Stratemeyer

You have, and you didn't let me know it, you mean, stingy thing!
Extract from : « Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Vol. 12, No. 32, November, 1873 » by Various

You must always offer a friend one, else he will call you 'a stingy fellow.'
Extract from : « Little Ferns For Fanny's Little Friends » by Fanny Fern

Antonyms for stingy

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