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
Despite ownership’s stinginess with payroll during the rebuild, Elias said he got everything he wanted this offseason.
From Washington Post • Feb. 5, 2023
Philadelphia overcame some offensive struggles with defensive stinginess.
From Seattle Times • Dec. 21, 2022
Her relapse is all the more painful because of the hypocrisy that informs it; it began, after all, as a result of James’s stinginess.
From New York Times • Jan. 25, 2022
Whose whims had been taken seriously by adults and who grew up to be the stingiest, greediest people on earth and out of their stinginess grew their stingy little love that ate everything in sight.
From "Song of Solomon" by Toni Morrison
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
