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单词 stingy
释义
stingy
adjective
informaldisapproving
uk
/ˈstɪn.dʒi/us
/ˈstɪn.dʒi/
unwillingtospendmoney;smallinamount:
He's really stingy and neverbuysanyone adrinkwhen we go out.他非常小气，我们一起出去时他从来不请喝酒。
Thelandlordsare so stingy - theyrefusedtopayfor newcarpets.房东们太小气了——他们拒绝掏钱买新地毯。
Synonyms
mean(NOT GENEROUS)mainlyUK
tight-fistedinformaldisapproving
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  • chintzy
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  • frugally
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  • miserliness
  • miserly
  • money grabber
  • money-grubber
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  • penny-pinching
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  • skinflint
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stinginess
(Definition ofstingyfrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus© Cambridge University Press)
stingy
adjective
informaldisapproving
uk
/ˈstɪn.dʒi/us
/ˈstɪn.dʒi/
unwillingtospendmoney
小气的，吝啬的
He's really stingy and neverbuysanyone adrinkwhen we go out.他非常小气，我们一起出去时他从来不请喝酒。
Thelandlordsare so stingy - theyrefusedtopayfor newcarpets.房东们太小气了——他们拒绝掏钱买新地毯。

stingy| American Dictionary

stingy
adjective[-er/-est only]
us
/ˈstɪn·dʒi/
notgenerous, orunwillingtospendmoney:
Somebankersare stingy inlendingtosmallbusinesses.
(Definition ofstingyfrom theCambridge Academic Content Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofstingy

stingy
No one should be pinche (stingy) and one should never take advantage of someone else's generosity.
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Adil's father is a married man, overly proper and a bitstingyin his relationship with his children, his oat-sowing days long past.
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One likely reason for this is that means-tested programmes tend to bestingyand small to begin with, and so will yield little in terms of budgetary savings.
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Would this proposal not enablestingypeople to contribute, so lessening the burden on the generous ones?
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I do not think we should bestingyabout that.
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Are we really concerned with dispensing our education in this meagre,stingyway?
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But the amount is ungenerous; it is almoststingy.
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Some very telling tables in that publication show howstingywe are.
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I think most people who love the theatre would regard that attitude in itself as wretchedly feeble,stingyand shortsighted.
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It is uncomfortable, therefore, to appear to be turning down a good case, to appear to bestingywhen we might be open-handed.
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It seems a littlestingyto do away with them.
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I am not sure that the special grant that is being paid to poor authorities is not a bitstingy.
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Some nonunion establishments do not even receive wage council rates, known in the trade as "legalstingyminimum wage".
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How generous they can be when they are contemplating the difficulties of naval officers, and howstingywhen contemplating the difficulties of the unemployed!
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I think that subsection (2) is a littlestingy.
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