stinginess

How To Use stinginess In A Sentence

• But in other areas, she would seem to be thrifty to the point of stinginess.
• I have lived without forethought or arrière pensée -- without the weakness of regrets or the stinginess of precautions, 'and then he turned to me -- his eyes were half shut and his voice was muffled as if a flood were battering on the door of his dispassionateness,' I have had everything in life except you, 'he said. Balloons
• Workers then come to exhibit some of the more traditional virtues such as generosity and trustfulness, and avoid some of the more traditional vices such as cowardice, stinginess, and self-indulgence.
• Instead of making the case for disaster relief, he has been obliged to waste hours ‘clarifying’ initial undiplomatic remarks that he made about the stinginess of wealthy nations.
• They circulated a joke that reflected both their disappointment with Soviet stinginess and their own destitution.
• No one uses the word “niggardly” in politics any more, no matter what degree of stinginess or miserly is intended. Think Progress » Memorandum To Tony Snow On The Use Of The Term ‘Tar Baby’
• Usually, generosity rewards an ethical awareness that defies the common obsessions with stinginess and corrupt gifts.
• If ever an event deserved to be supported this one does, and my hope is that Queally's pub will be packed to the rafters in a show of appreciation of the parents who simply refused to be beaten by the stinginess of the Department of Education.
• The stinginess of the portion left me grumbling and griping.
• It had surprised him to discover how difficult it was to find a buyer for his firestone, given how all the other Weyrs had complained about D'gan's stinginess. Dragon's Fire