Associations to the word «Stingy»
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Wiktionary
STINGY, adjective. Stinging; able to sting.
STINGY, adjective. Unwilling to spend, give, or share; ungenerous; extremely close and covetous; meanly avaricious; niggardly; miserly; penurious; as, a stingy churl.
STINGY, adjective. Small, scant, meager, insufficient
Dictionary definition
STINGY, adjective. Unwilling to spend; "she practices economy without being stingy"; "an ungenerous response to the appeal for funds".
STINGY, adjective. Deficient in amount or quality or extent; "meager resources"; "meager fare".
Wise words
Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary
meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the
truants in custody and bring them back to their right
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