1 not generous, or unwilling to spend money:
Some bankers are stingy in lending to small businesses.
No one should be pinche (stingy) and one should never take advantage of someone else's generosity.
Adil's father is a married man, overly proper and a bit stingy in his relationship with his children, his oat-sowing days long past.
One likely reason for this is that means-tested programmes tend to be stingy and small to begin with, and so will yield little in terms of budgetary savings.
Would this proposal not enable stingy people to contribute, so lessening the burden on the generous ones?
I do not think we should be stingy about that.
Are we really concerned with dispensing our education in this meagre, stingy way?
But the amount is ungenerous; it is almost stingy.
Some very telling tables in that publication show how stingy we are.
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