stinginess Betydning & definition

Eksempler på stinginess

• In the context of a generalized cooperative subsistence strategy, stinginess could provoke the withdrawal of cooperative partners and result in a loss of income.

• Although populations tend to vary over the extent of explicit praise of generosity, there is often mention of a direct condemnation of stinginess.

• Failure to add the additional ingredient was typically interpreted as the result of conscious neglect or "stinginess" on the part of the kitchen staff.

• Assuming that it is stinginess on the part of the good producers that elicits punishing, at least some of the costs are already being paid.

• Although claims of stinginess could carry a social cost reducing the benefit of hunter control, such communication is reserved for cases where the social relationship has already soured.

• We shall never get it by stinginess and scrimping and scraping.

• Sometimes, in the heat of polemics, we accuse each other of stinginess.

• Inadequate housing is perhaps the best evidence of that stinginess.