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Definition of Stingy

Stingy

  1. Stinging; able to sting.
  2. Extremely close and covetous; meanly avaricious; niggardly; miserly; penurious; as, a stingy churl.

Stingy Quotations

A child's kiss is magic. Why else would they be so stingy with them?
Harvey Fierstein

The United States is not stingy. We are the greatest contributor to international relief efforts in the world.
Colin Powell

Courtesy is the one coin you can never have too much of or be stingy with.
John Wanamaker

Because I was an only, I had more things, and I remember early on the kick I got from giving stuff away. Despite all the myths about only children not being able to share, actually I've never knowingly met a stingy one.
Julie Burchill

My main concern is theater, and theater does not reflect or mirror society. It has been stingy and selfish, and it has to do better.
Anna Deavere Smith
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Stingy Translations

stingy in Danish is gerrig
stingy in Dutch is pinnig, hebzuchtig, gierig, inhalig
stingy in Finnish is saita
stingy in French is avare
stingy in German is geizen, geizig
stingy in Italian is avareggiare
stingy in Latin is tenax

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