stinginess

Example Sentences

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There, among the seamstresses in training, Duncan met other welfare mothers, equally desperate, and recognized the stinginess, indifference and bureaucratic aggravations she’d been suffering in isolation were part of a larger system.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 5, 2026

They have regained some of their defensive stinginess.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 14, 2023

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

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