How To Use Stinginess In A Sentence
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But in other areas, she would seem to be thrifty to the point of stinginess.
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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
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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.
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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.
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They circulated a joke that reflected both their disappointment with Soviet stinginess and their own destitution.
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No one uses the word “niggardly” in politics any more, no matter what degree of stinginess or miserly is intended.
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Usually, generosity rewards an ethical awareness that defies the common obsessions with stinginess and corrupt gifts.
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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.
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The stinginess of the portion left me grumbling and griping.
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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
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Thus, miserliness is more than the English word stinginess.
Mind and Mental Factors: The Fifty-one Types of Subsidiary Awareness
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The Brahms was uneconomically packaged as it is spread out on four CDs with no fillers, but such musical weight surely does not demand stinginess!
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Thus he contemplates both Shakespeare's stinginess and his peculiar kind of generosity, an imaginative one that transformed a dying wastrel into the immortal Falstaff.
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He represents a refreshing change from those politicians that the public hold responsible for failures in education, stinginess in the treasury and double-standards on leadership.
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His first two wives divorced him, citing his stinginess as their major complaint.
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And he rounded things off with a joke regarding the Scot's notoriety for stinginess and penny-pinching.
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Considering his habitual stinginess, we were surprised when he donated money to charity.
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Consider the number of jokes about Scots that burlesqued their stinginess.
