Examples of stinginess

• She was frugal to the point of stinginess.

• She filed for divorce, charging her husband with philandering and stinginess.

• Lavish treatment of inhouse employees is financed by extreme stinginess to contract and freelance staff.

• 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.