| 词汇 | stingy |
| 释义 | stingy adjective informaldisapprovinguk /ˈstɪn.dʒi/ us /ˈstɪn.dʒi/ unwilling to spend money: 小气的，吝啬的 He's really stingy and never buys anyone a drink when we go out.他非常小气，我们一起出去时他从来不请喝酒。 The landlords are so stingy - they refused to pay for new carpets.房东们太小气了——他们拒绝掏钱买新地毯。 Synonyms mean(NOT GENEROUS)mainly UK tight(NOT GENEROUS)informaldisapproving tight-fistedinformaldisapproving small in amount and less than is needed or expected: The problems are linked to stingy government spending over the past decade. The private operators, to earn a profit, have fewer employees with lower pay and stingier benefits. Synonyms meagreUK measlyinformal miserable(NOT GOOD) negligible paltry trifling The state has been quite stingy with funding for public education. He stated that the world's wealthiest countries were often stingy about donating foreign aid. The prize money certainly isn't stingy. 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 You can also find related words, phrases, and synonyms in the topics: Scarce, inadequate and not enough Related wordstinginess stingy | American Dictionarystingy adjective[ -er/-est only ] us/ˈstɪn·dʒi/ not generous, or unwilling to spend money: Some bankers are stingy in lending to small businesses. Examples of stingystingy No one should be pinche (stingy) and one should never take advantage of someone else's generosity. Adil's father is a married man, overly proper and a bit stingy in his relationship with his children, his oat-sowing days long past. One likely reason for this is that means-tested programmes tend to be stingy and small to begin with, and so will yield little in terms of budgetary savings. Would this proposal not enable stingy people to contribute, so lessening the burden on the generous ones? From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I do not think we should be stingy about that. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Are we really concerned with dispensing our education in this meagre, stingy way? From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 But the amount is ungenerous; it is almost stingy. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Some very telling tables in that publication show how stingy we are. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I think most people who love the theatre would regard that attitude in itself as wretchedly feeble, stingy and shortsighted. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 It is uncomfortable, therefore, to appear to be turning down a good case, to appear to be stingy when we might be open-handed. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 It seems a little stingy to do away with them. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I am not sure that the special grant that is being paid to poor authorities is not a bit stingy. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Some nonunion establishments do not even receive wage council rates, known in the trade as "legal stingy minimum wage". From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 How generous they can be when they are contemplating the difficulties of naval officers, and how stingy when contemplating the difficulties of the unemployed! From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I think that subsection (2) is a little stingy. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 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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