stingier; stingiest
1
: not generous or liberal : sparing or scant in using, giving, or spending
stingy with the salt
stingy employee benefits
2
: meanly scanty or small
stingy portions of meat
Examples of stingy in a Sentence
The company was too stingy to raise salaries.
until his redemption, Ebenezer Scrooge is the classic example of a very stingy, heartless miser
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Seattle is typically stingy with first-round grades, and this may be another year in which the team’s board has maybe a dozen or so prospects with Round 1 grades.
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Rylee Johnston, Travel + Leisure, 13 Apr. 2025
Seattle is typically stingy with first-round grades, and this may be another year in which the team’s board has maybe a dozen or so prospects with Round 1 grades.
—Michael-Shawn Dugar, New York Times, 7 Apr. 2025
The Mets’ bullpen has been exceptionally stingy to start the season.
—Abbey Mastracco, New York Daily News, 6 Apr. 2025
But a slew of signals suggest the economy is starting to lose momentum, including weaker corporate earnings, eroding consumer confidence and stingier retail sales.
—Alain Sherter, CBS News, 13 Mar. 2025
See All Example Sentences for stingy
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“Stingy.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/stingy. Accessed 21 Apr. 2025.
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