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View definitions for stinginess

stinginess

noun as in closeness

noun as in selfishness

noun as in thrift

Weak match

  • economizing

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Example Sentences

Finally, a kind of self-reinforcing stinginess perhaps best explains the lack of Medals of Honor.

Players can use the “Jewish stinginess” card to force competitors to hand over resources.

Republican stinginess—relative stinginess, as all the proposals will cost massive amounts—could yield political dividends.

Superlatives and all words denoting comparison should be used with stinginess.

What Chopin says here and elsewhere about Duport's stinginess tallies with the contemporary newspaper accounts.

But the diligence and liberality of the authorities were not to be outdone by the skulking stinginess of Negro-smugglers.

The Democratic administration was economical even to stinginess.

He knew the Howes family by reputation, and the reputation was that of general sharpness in trade and stinginess in money matters.

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On this page you'll find 213 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to stinginess, such as: avidity, covetousness, cupidity, frugality, greediness, and miserliness.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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