stinginess
IPA: stˈɪndʒinɪs
noun
- A lack of generosity; an excessive reluctance to spend money.
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Examples of "stinginess" in Sentences
- He is known for his stinginess.
- A bath is an exercise of stinginess.
- They even have a Museum of Stinginess.
- Everyone disapproves of her flagrant stinginess.
- Also he accused me of "stinginess," in not wanting
- It is the sharpest weapon to sever the knot of stinginess.
- Thus, miserliness is more than the English word stinginess.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.