- stinginess
- noun see stingy
New Collegiate Dictionary. 2001.
stinginess
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Stinginess — Stin gi*ness, n. The quality or state of being stingy. [1913 Webster] … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
stinginess — index austerity Burton s Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton. 2006 … Law dictionary
stinginess — stingy ► ADJECTIVE (stingier, stingiest) informal ▪ mean; ungenerous. DERIVATIVES stingily adverb stinginess noun. ORIGIN perhaps a dialect variant of STING(Cf. ↑stinger) … English terms dictionary
Stinginess — … Wikipedia
stinginess — See stingily. * * * … Universalium
stinginess — noun A lack of generosity. See Also: stingy, parsimony … Wiktionary
stinginess — sting·i·ness || stɪndʒɪnɪs n. quality of being stingy, lack of generosity, parsimoniousness, miserliness … English contemporary dictionary
stinginess — stin·gi·ness … English syllables
stinginess — noun a lack of generosity; a general unwillingness to part with money • Ant: ↑generosity • Derivationally related forms: ↑stingy • Hypernyms: ↑trait • Hyponyms: ↑meanness … Useful english dictionary
a moth in your wallet — stinginess The Tineola bisselliella doesn t normally go for leather, although it favours an undisturbed site for its eggs: Symington would pick up the tab... there were no moths in his wallet. (Sanders, 1983) … How not to say what you mean: A dictionary of euphemisms
