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词汇 stingily
释义 stingily
adverb
 informaldisapprovinguk /ˈstɪn.dʒəl.i/ us /ˈstɪn.dʒəl.i/
in a way that shows that you are unwilling to spend money, or that is small in amount:
She lived frugally, but not stingily.
There's a water dispenser where people can fill up stingily tiny plastic cups.
The book has been stingily downsized from the original hardback edition.
Companies spent stingily on their computer systems last year, but as the economy picks up, they’re spending more.
The cheese was chopped into small squares and stingily scattered on top of the pizza.
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

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begrudge
cheapskate
cheeseparing
chintzy
frugal
frugally
miser
miserliness
miserly
money grabber
money-grubber
money-grubbing
penuriously
pinchpenny
scrooge
skinflint
stinginess
tight
ungenerous
ungenerously

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