stingy

Definition

Unwilling to spend, give, or share; ungenerous; mean.

Etymology

Uncertain, possibly from stinge, a dialectal variation of sting (verb).

Example Sentences

• ""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."

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