(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.
Ungenerous
Definition:
(a.) Not generous; illiberal; ignoble; unkind; dishonorable.
Example Sentences:
(1) Who wants to be seen with that narrow, ungenerous and (to the rest of Canada) irritating thing, a separatist?
(2) That would only happen if there was a remarkable run on the pound this year - so the odds feel a little ungenerous.
(3) If you were being ungenerous, you might say such headlines make a nice change.
(4) The show was hosted by Ricky Gervais – who not quite the same version of himself that hosted last year's event, when he attracted criticism for an extended absence from stage and for striking an ungenerous tone.
(5) And just as the healthcare debates have been disrupted by an astonishing amount of hateful speech, so the national blogosphere is filled with bitter, ungenerous commentary about the time he cheated on an exam at Harvard; or how he called his political advisers before he called paramedics when his car plunged off a bridge on Martha's Vineyard, leaving the body of Mary Jo Kopechne, a young campaign aide, submerged for nearly nine hours; or whetherhe drank to excess.
(6) They play on people's fears and anxieties, pushing a view of the world that is backwards and ungenerous.
(7) It may be the case that, as Clegg says, an "ungenerous, backwards-looking politics has emerged in Britain".
(8) The money will have to be repaid, and repaid at ungenerous rates of interest: in this case, 5.2%.
(9) An ungenerous, backwards-looking politics has emerged in Britain ," Clegg said.
(10) I have never had Monbiot down as an ungenerous character, but to ignore all of this in favour of blowing up a controversy around one small part of the negotiations, known as investor protection, seems to me positively Scrooge-like.
(11) But that’s not to say the fight isn’t on for the future of our country too.” Although he is not expected to mention Ukip or Farage in his speech, he will warn: “An ungenerous, backwards-looking politics has emerged in Britain.
(12) Keen on working in England, he threw his hat into the managerial ring when Roy Keane parted with Sunderland last December but the Wearside's club's far from ungenerous board were deterred by the Italian's salary demands.
(13) Faced by a journalist's microphone, Bush is reserved, dry, ungenerous – the exact opposite of how she is faced by a microphone in a recording studio.
(14) An ungenerous, backwards looking politics has emerged in Britain."
(15) I get the impression she quite likes this image, though she says the programme was ungenerous to the Budworths.
(16) An ungenerous, backwards-looking politics has emerged in Britain."
(17) It would be ungenerous to doubt the good intentions of Michael Moritz, chairman of the California-based Sequoia Capital, and his wife, Harriet Heyman, who have pledged £75m to launch the fund and, in return, will have the pleasure of generations of students being called Moritz-Heyman scholars just as some Etonians are called King's scholars .