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What is the adjective for stingy?

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stingy
  1. Unwilling to spend, give, or share; ungenerous; mean
  2. Small, scant, meager, insufficient
  3. Synonyms:
      4. miserly, parsimonious, penurious, ungenerous, tight, mean, mingy, close, cheap, sparing, tightfisted, uncharitable, grasping, illiberal, chintzy, stinting, greedy, closefisted, frugal, pinchpenny, spare, thrifty, scrimping, pinching, near, selfish, economical, covetous, grudging, saving, pennywise, skimping, cheeseparing, petty, chary, ungiving, curmudgeonly, churlish, costive, avaricious, penny-pinching, close-fisted, tight-fisted, Scrooge-like, cheese-paring, money-grubbing, acquisitive, grabby, rapacious, prudent … more
  4. Examples:
      5. “Three things that are not easily caught: a wild stag on a mountain top, a fox in a woody cliff, and the penny of a stingy miser.”
      “My steak was inedible due to the gristle and a very stingy amount of sauce.”
      “Someone is being stingy with the spices for the lamb shank, and veal Milanese seems like an interloper from another menu.”
stingy
  1. Stinging; able to sting.
  2. Synonyms:
      3. miserly, parsimonious, penurious, ungenerous, tight, mean, mingy, close, cheap, sparing, tightfisted, uncharitable, grasping, illiberal, chintzy, stinting, greedy, closefisted, frugal, pinchpenny, spare, thrifty, scrimping, pinching, near, selfish, economical, covetous, grudging, saving, pennywise, skimping, cheeseparing, petty, chary, ungiving, curmudgeonly, churlish, costive, avaricious, penny-pinching, close-fisted, tight-fisted, Scrooge-like, cheese-paring, money-grubbing, acquisitive, grabby, rapacious, prudent … more
  3. Examples:
      4. “Three things that are not easily caught: a wild stag on a mountain top, a fox in a woody cliff, and the penny of a stingy miser.”
      “My steak was inedible due to the gristle and a very stingy amount of sauce.”
      “Someone is being stingy with the spices for the lamb shank, and veal Milanese seems like an interloper from another menu.”
stingier
  1. comparative form of stingy: more stingy
  2. Synonyms:
      3. tighter, meaner, mingier, closer, cheaper, chintzier, greedier, sparer, thriftier, nearer, pettier, charier, curmudgeonlier, more miserly, more parsimonious, more penurious, more ungenerous, more sparing, more tightfisted, more uncharitable, more grasping, more illiberal, more closefisted, more frugal, more pinching, more selfish, more economical, more covetous, more grudging, more saving, more cheeseparing, more ungiving, more churlish, more avaricious, more penny-pinching, more tight-fisted, meagrer, meagerer, measlier, scanter, scantier, skimpier, lighter, scarcer, slimmer, sparser, slenderer, smaller, poorer … more
  3. Examples:
      4. “Stingy people think they are not going to get more meat, so they are always hungry, which makes them stingier.”
      “Betty the lunch lady is still being stingier than usual about the food.”
      “At the time, he expressed willingness to raise the age of eligibility for Medicare and to use a stingier method to increase Social Security payments in line with inflation.”
stingiest
  1. superlative form of stingy: most stingy
  2. Synonyms:
      3. tightest, meanest, mingiest, closest, cheapest, chintziest, greediest, sparest, thriftiest, nearest, pettiest, chariest, curmudgeonliest, most miserly, most parsimonious, most penurious, most ungenerous, most sparing, most tightfisted, most uncharitable, most grasping, most illiberal, most closefisted, most frugal, most pinching, most selfish, most economical, most covetous, most grudging, most saving, most cheeseparing, most ungiving, most churlish, most avaricious, most penny-pinching, meagrest, meagerest, measliest, scantest, scantiest, skimpiest, lightest, scarcest, slimmest, sparsest, slenderest, smallest, poorest, most exiguous … more
  3. Examples:
      4. “Just what is it that makes the stingiest people in Britain pinch the pennies to such extremes that they have won the unenviable moniker of tightwad?”
      “But being the staunchest, stingiest squad on paper does not mean as much as an old saying might make it seem.”
      “It's just too sweet an offer, especially for the red states with the stingiest Medicaid coverage.”
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