(superl.) Extremely close and covetous; meanly avaricious; niggardly; miserly; penurious; as, a stingy churl.
Example Sentences:
(1) Our state pension isn't just stingy compared with other prosperous western European countries.
(2) The scarcity of funds traditionally available to mount nutrition programs has made program administrators stingy when contemplating evaluation budgets.
(3) Italy At least England know what to expect from the Azzurri : a masterclass in the retention of possession, orchestrated by Andrea Pirlo in his quarterback role; a stingy defence most likely forged at Juventus; and a maverick forward capable of brilliance and lunacy in equal measures.
(4) This may seem stingy in comparison with some of the best non-Isa savings rates on the market.
(5) Our universities have sat passively for the last decade under a succession of stingy governments and panicked vice-chancellors, and student activists were fragmented and disillusioned.
(6) But it was to Ed Miliband that they bared their sharpest teeth, asking him the toughest questions and proving stingy with their applause.
(7) In what may become a case study in how not to defuse a crisis, Sterling, a national pariah who is battling to keep his basketball team, also accused wealthy black people of being stingy philanthropists in contrast to Jews such as himself.
(8) Then there's the culture that makes Germans the biggest savers and most reluctant spenders, encouraging national stereotypes about the thrifty and the spendthrift, the scroungers and the stingy.
(9) If you're a Braves fan concerned about Dodger pitching, it's because your team isn't great at getting on base, and that could be a problem against a stingy LA staff.
(10) As a result, big banks get to borrow at extremely low rates, even as they remain stingy on lending to small businesses and homebuyers, which boosts their profit margins.
(11) Gordon Brown had been stingy with public spending in the late 1990s, building up a sizeable fiscal war chest in the process.
(12) Starbucks might be stingy when it comes to taxes, but they'll quite happily sell you a gluten-free sarnie to go with your soya latte.
(13) She will say she wants to make it easier for people, and women in particular, to work by increasing access to child care, paid leave and paid sick days, areas where the US is stingy compared to most other developed nations.
(14) That Lester became a reliable force helped steady the Sox rotation, and they'll look to him tonight to continue what he's done in the playoffs, which is be stingy.
(15) There can be no doubt that Tottenham have the defence to win the title, given that it has taken them 10 matches to concede from open play this season, but Mauricio Pochettino needs his team to be as slick up front as they are stingy at the back if they are going to last the pace.
(16) Only Liverpool and Manchester City have scored more this term, even if none can match Chelsea's stingy record of 23 goals shipped in 31 games.
(17) healthcare Meanwhile, moderates in the same party feel the tax credits are too stingy, especially for low earners and older people.
(18) It wasn’t the greatest strategy.” In complicated wrangling, House Speaker John Boehner sought to enact fast track coupled with trade adjustment assistance – which many Republicans saw as too generous for unemployed workers and many Democrats view as too stingy.
(19) Financial help often flows from the older to the younger generation (such as help with adult children’s and grandchildren’s expenses) until very late old age – hardly a sign of stinginess.
(20) Frustrated by the banks’ stinginess after the recession, they raised money by selling shares to the public, a scheme called Equity for Punks , now in its fourth iteration.
Stringy
Definition:
(a.) Consisting of strings, or small threads; fibrous; filamentous; as, a stringy root.
(a.) Capable of being drawn into a string, as a glutinous substance; ropy; viscid; gluely.
Example Sentences:
(1) If you look at a map of Britain resized according to house prices, London and the south-east form a massive blob, and every other region and nation are mere stringy offshoots, like a fried egg that is all yolk.
(2) In vitro dissolution studies showed that the capsules had a tendency to collapse into a stringy mass and to dissolve slowly.
(3) Police reportedly investigated the theory at the time after Lady Osborne, Aspinall’s mother – and chancellor George Osborne’s grandmother – allegedly told them: “The last I heard of him he was being fed to the tigers at my son’s zoo.” Aspinall reportedly responded when questioned: “My tigers are only fed the choicest cuts – do you really think they’re going to eat stringy old Lucky?” A week after the murder, Aspinall, who died in 2000, told ITV News: “I find it difficult to imagine him in Brazil or Haiti as a fugitive.
(4) The excretory pyelogram revealed that the right kidney was hydronephrosis, and a retrograde pyelogram showed stringy filling defects in the middle portion of the right ureter.
(5) Scanning electron micrographs of bronchial mucosa from DG-ventilated lungs showed tangling and matting of cilia with a granular and stringy material attached to most cilia; these changes were much less pronounced in HG-ventilated lungs.
(6) Eventually we went to the RAC Club and ate rather stringy beef and drank a bottle of red together, so he reneged on that as well.” 3.
(7) Scanning electron microscopy revealed that, in both types, a stringy substance interconnected the cells and connected the cells to glass surfaces, with amorphous flocklike materials present in the intercellular space.
(8) Keep handling to a minimum as it is not cold hands (or a warm heart) that are key to quality shortcrust pastry, but minimising the formation of the stringy, elastic protein gluten.
(9) Axons most commonly had longitudinal orientations and stringy shapes.
(10) Thousands of boxes of the green, stringy plant are brought here each week for distribution across the UK.
(11) HS, PER, and NOX arbors had a "stringy" shape without a clear terminal focus, save for the fact that PER and NOX collaterals often terminated in rostrally displaced substantia gelatinosa at the level of the caudal SpVi.
(12) The polymerization process has four stages before final curing: slurry, stringy, dough-like (plastic), and rubber-like (elastic).
(13) In the fully developed syndrome, the upper tarsal plate has an increase in stringy mucus and is covered by large papillae crowded together.
(14) Unlike vibrissa afferents, hairy skin afferents gave rise to sparse and widespread arbors characterized by a string-like appearance, while the Vo collaterals were more stringy.
(15) But Henry VIII aside (a massive fan of the friendship bracelet), this particular stringy accessory truly had its moment among those born around the mid to late 70s and early 80s.
(16) And on days when I feel like what I’m working at is dreadful and not working out at all, I remember that Dorothy felt like “a plain disagreeable child with stringy hair and a yen to write poetry”, like she was only following in the footsteps of other, better women, in dirty sneakers.
(17) The aging neck in which the stringy appearance is due to hyperactive platysma can be surgically treated.
(18) The microscopic pathology shows fibrous tissue, reactive woven bone, and stringy, eosinophilic, extracellular debris.
(19) It may be interpreted that there was a stringy structure embedded in the calcospherites beneath the predentin.