stinginess
Example Sentences
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The girls bought new shoes and ate more meat, but along with Pedro’s financial savvy came a stinginess that extended to his family.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 26, 2024
Philadelphia overcame some offensive struggles with defensive stinginess.
From Seattle Times • Dec. 21, 2022
Yet to these Cubs, a big-market team whose stinginess in recent winters has frustrated fans who do not understand it, the splurge on Swanson signals a change in approach.
From Washington Post • Dec. 18, 2022
Nevertheless, there is a notable stinginess in English when it comes to describing gender, certainly compared to the largess of Indigenous languages.
From New York Times • Feb. 17, 2022
And so I closed the Bible and to that group of women clustering close, I told the truth about myself—my self-centeredness, my stinginess, my lack of love.
From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
