| 词汇 | stinginess |
| 释义 | stinginess noun[ U ] informaldisapprovinguk /ˈstɪn.dʒi.nəs/ us /ˈstɪn.dʒi.nəs/ unwillingness to spend money: 吝啬，小气 He has a reputation for stinginess.他是出了名的小气。 Is giving your unwanted gifts as birthday presents good for the environment, or just stinginess?把你不想要的礼物送给别人做生日礼物，是对环境有利，还是只是小气？ See stingy She was frugal to the point of stinginess. She filed for divorce, charging her husband with philandering and stinginess. Lavish treatment of inhouse employees is financed by extreme stinginess to contract and freelance staff. Mean with money begrudge cheapskate cheeseparing chintzy frugal frugally miser miserliness miserly money grabber money-grubber money-grubbing penuriously pinchpenny scrooge skinflint stingily tight ungenerous ungenerously Examples of stinginessstinginess In the context of a generalized cooperative subsistence strategy, stinginess could provoke the withdrawal of cooperative partners and result in a loss of income. Although populations tend to vary over the extent of explicit praise of generosity, there is often mention of a direct condemnation of stinginess. Failure to add the additional ingredient was typically interpreted as the result of conscious neglect or "stinginess" on the part of the kitchen staff. Assuming that it is stinginess on the part of the good producers that elicits punishing, at least some of the costs are already being paid. Although claims of stinginess could carry a social cost reducing the benefit of hunter control, such communication is reserved for cases where the social relationship has already soured. We shall never get it by stinginess and scrimping and scraping. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Sometimes, in the heat of polemics, we accuse each other of stinginess. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Inadequate housing is perhaps the best evidence of that stinginess. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Well it is the "stinginesses" that we inherited from our predecessors. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 In other words, great stinginess is shown towards carers. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 They may ascribe that to some sort of stinginess on my part, but it is not that at all. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The few concessions leave the old indignities and stinginess untouched. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 In this regard also there is identical stinginess and lack of ambition. From Europarl Parallel Corpus - English My stinginess, what is left over after my rapacity in the present year, amounts to £20,000,000 sterling. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The real surprise in this budget relates to external actions, where selfishness and stinginess are the rule. From Europarl Parallel Corpus - English See all examples of stinginess These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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