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as in miserly
giving or sharing as little as possible
until his redemption, Ebenezer Scrooge is the classic example of a very stingy, heartless miser
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as in sparse
less plentiful than what is normal, necessary, or desirable
a stingy serving of mashed potatoes
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Recent Examples of stingy
Second-quarter earnings blasted past forecasts, but the stock reactions were stingy, implying good news was largely priced in to equities.
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Michael Santoli, CNBC, 19 Aug. 2025
The 5-foot-11, 220-pound all-state returnee has manned the middle of one of the stingiest defenses in the state the past two years, logging 199 tackles and one state championship.
—Matt Schubert, Denver Post, 18 Aug. 2025
Games against fitter, more physical Premier League sides and stingier, lower blocks will bring new challenges for Chelsea’s recruits, who may not receive the ball in so much space.
—Thom Harris, New York Times, 11 Aug. 2025
Apple has always been a bit stingy with RAM in iDevices, even more so a few years ago, and especially in lower-end devices (Apple Intelligence and its apparent 8GB RAM requirement have been a bit of an equalizer here).
—ArsTechnica, 24 July 2025
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Michael Santoli, CNBC, 19 Aug. 2025
The 5-foot-11, 220-pound all-state returnee has manned the middle of one of the stingiest defenses in the state the past two years, logging 199 tackles and one state championship.
—Matt Schubert, Denver Post, 18 Aug. 2025
Games against fitter, more physical Premier League sides and stingier, lower blocks will bring new challenges for Chelsea’s recruits, who may not receive the ball in so much space.
—Thom Harris, New York Times, 11 Aug. 2025
Apple has always been a bit stingy with RAM in iDevices, even more so a few years ago, and especially in lower-end devices (Apple Intelligence and its apparent 8GB RAM requirement have been a bit of an equalizer here).
—ArsTechnica, 24 July 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for stingy
Adjective
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McKim, Mead & White quickly became the place for aspiring young architects, who avidly sought jobs there despite miserly salaries.—
Henry Wiencek
July 22,
Literary Hub,
22 July 2025
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The miserly email account offerings are particularly limiting for larger ventures, and unusual for the category which typically offers unlimited email.—
PC Magazine,
PC Magazine,
16 June 2025
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All these people took advantage of the sheep population, but a remnant of the herd remained among the rocky crags of the San Andres, where grass is sparse and water rare.—
Tim Kelly,
Outdoor Life,
4 Sep. 2025
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Details surrounding the episode were initially sparse.—
Nathan Pilling,
Kansas City Star,
4 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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So yes, be yourself, so long as that self is not selfish, impulsive, or obnoxious.—
Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic,
Forbes.com,
9 Sep. 2025
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To be a quarterback means being selfish and sometimes delusional.—
Louisa Thomas,
New Yorker,
7 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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Treat storage as a scarce public good.—
Phil De Luna,
Forbes.com,
9 Sep. 2025
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Water is scarce, rationed to just three hours a day in some districts, and packs of stray dogs roam the city.—
Yegor Mostovshikov,
The Dial,
9 Sep. 2025
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Fleming and Iwamasa, as well as greedy ketamine providing doctors Salvador Plasencia and Mark Chavez have all previously entered guilty pleas in the Perry case.—
Dominic Patten,
Deadline,
3 Sep. 2025
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Women are greedy, untrustworthy, weak and inferior, these influencers say.—
Will Carless,
USA Today,
3 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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But prorating three years of player profits down to 12 months, as UEFA’s rule does, reduces the immediate efficacy of successful trading in the market, the very strategy that poorer clubs increasingly rely on to climb the ladder.—
Chris Weatherspoon,
New York Times,
5 Sep. 2025
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Like most extended car warranty providers, CarShield excludes pre-existing conditions that existed before your warranty took effect, as well as damage resulting from poor maintenance, neglect or intentional abuse.—
Brian Sloan,
CNBC,
4 Sep. 2025
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Every year, a complacent, tightfisted city council turned down the recommendations.—
Margaret Talbot,
The New Yorker,
2 Oct. 2023
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Kotick played the tightfisted owner of the Oakland A’s.—
Cynthia Littleton,
Variety,
31 May 2023
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Chelsea are famously parsimonious in the transfer market, after all.—
Phil Hay,
New York Times,
21 Aug. 2025
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Wimpy was a mild-mannered, soft-spoken, lazy, parsimonious, and utterly gluttonous hamburger-wolfing straight man to Popeye.—
Richard Lederer,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
19 July 2025
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“Stingy.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/stingy. Accessed 11 Sep. 2025.
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