I think that subsection (2) is a little stingy.
How generous they can be when they are contemplating the difficulties of naval officers, and how stingy when contemplating the difficulties of the unemployed!
Some nonunion establishments do not even receive wage council rates, known in the trade as "legal stingy minimum wage".
I am not sure that the special grant that is being paid to poor authorities is not a bit stingy.
It seems a little stingy to do away with them.
It is uncomfortable, therefore, to appear to be turning down a good case, to appear to be stingy when we might be open-handed.
I think most people who love the theatre would regard that attitude in itself as wretchedly feeble, stingy and shortsighted.
Some very telling tables in that publication show how stingy we are.