Thesaurus: stingy
Stinging; able to sting.
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Definitions
- a. Stinging; able to sting.
- superl. Extremely close and covetous; meanly avaricious; niggardly; miserly; penurious; as, a stingy churl.
- adj. unwilling to spend (money, time, resources, etc.)
- adj. deficient in amount or quality or extent
- Stinging; able to sting. Extremely close and covetous; meanly avaricious; niggardly; miserly; penurious; as, a stingy churl. A stingy, narrow-hearted fellow that had a deal of choice fruit, had not the heart to touch it till it began to be rotten. L'estrange.
- j:100 a. unwilling to spend