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Example sentences for "stinginess"

Lexicographically close words:
stin; sting; stinger; stingers; stingeth; stinging; stingingly; stingless; stingray; stings
  1. Side by side with stories of the benevolence of "the Faculty," piquant anecdotes of their stinginess might be told.

  2. Such generosity speaks of a parsimonious temper and habit more forcibly than positive acts of stinginess would.

  3. And then too I remembered how she had said one evening the year before when we were playing Truth that she despised stinginess beyond any other vice.

  4. But like lightning her remark about stinginess flashed into my mind.

  5. There was an old woman who had three sons, and from her stinginess she could not bear that anyone should have anything to eat.

  6. Punch gibbets the stinginess of the Lambeth Workhouse when in 1875 the Guardians decided that Christmas pudding was too rich in good things and recommended a plainer variety.

  7. They were sorry for the stinginess they had shown toward their brother.

  8. The stinginess of the priest is proverbial.

  9. We've kept it dark so far, thanks to being in Hackney away from our old acquaintances and to mother's stinginess in not having encouraged new people to drop in.

  10. He even went with her to see how the repairs were getting on, chatted with the workmen, disapproved of the landlord's stinginess in not putting down new drain pipes, and made a special call upon that gentleman.

  11. They split the difference, and so eleven and threepence represented the predominance of Eliphaz Green's stinginess over Volcovitch's.

  12. Isn't there a Rabbi in your community whose stinginess is proverbial?

  13. We have said already that Prodigality and Stinginess are respectively states of excess and defect, and this in two things, giving and receiving (expenditure of course we class under giving).

  14. Well now, Prodigality exceeds in giving and forbearing to receive and is deficient in receiving, while Stinginess is deficient in giving and exceeds in receiving, but it is in small things.

  15. And he took pleasure in the thought for he knew naught of the judge's stinginess and he could not suppose but that his daughter would be comfortable with her mate and well-to-do in the matter of diet and dress and furniture.

  16. I don't believe a man is in pocket by stinginess on his land," said Sir James.

  17. All know the lightness of Indian corn-meal, as an article of food, and can easily judge from the following facts whether the statements I have made of the stinginess of Master Thomas, are borne out.

  18. Aristocracy hampered by extreme stinginess would cut but a poor figure, I should think.

  19. I regretted that I had been forced to kill the old man, for with all his stinginess he was rather kind-hearted, but I had to save my own life.


    20. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "stinginess" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    austerity; avarice; closeness; economy; greed; infrequency; littleness; meanness; nearness; parsimony; paucity; pettiness; rarity; scantiness; scarcity; smallness; sparsity; stringency; thinness; thrift; tightness