Crossword-Solution: STINGY
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
|---|---|---|
| Stingy | a. | Stinging; able to sting. |
| Stingy | superl. | Extremely close and covetous; meanly avaricious; niggardly; miserly; penurious; as, a stingy churl. |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
|---|---|---|
| STINGY | anagram | STYING |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
REEAT
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with STINGY (5)
The stingy wizard didn’t give me much of it, but I guess there’s enough for two or three doses.” [Illustration: image029] Tip was much surprised when he overheard this speech.
But here is a point: we pay that tax knowing it to be unjust and an extortion; yet we go away with a pain at the heart if we think we have been stingy with the poor fellows; and we heartily wish we were back again, so that we could do the right thing, and _more_ than the right thing, the _generous_ thing.
Added to the cruel lashings to which these poor slave-girls were subjected—enough in themselves to crush the spirit of men—they were, really, kept nearly half starved; they seldom knew what it was to eat a full meal, except when they got it in the kitchens of neighbors, less mean and stingy than the psalm-singing Mrs.
You know well enough that Bertha Dorset couldn’t have touched you if there hadn’t been—well—questions asked before—little points of interrogation, eh? Bound to happen to a good-looking girl with stingy relatives, I suppose; anyhow, they DID happen, and she found the ground prepared for her.
She was not uncomely, and the hard, lean, stingy countenance of the attendant nobleman was almost genial.
Quotes with STINGY (3)
Conquer the angry one by not getting angry; conquer the wicked by goodness; conquer the stingy by generosity, and the liar by speaking the truth.]
The early church was strikingly different from the culture around it in this way - the pagan society was stingy with its money and promiscuous with its body. A pagan gave nobody their money and practically gave everybody their body. And the Christians came along and gave practically nobody their body and they gave practically everybody their money.
Things are set up as contraries that are not even in the same category. Listen to me: the opposite of radical is superficial; the opposite of liberal is stingy; the opposite of conservative is destructive. Thus I will describe myself as a radical conservative liberal; but certain of the tainted red fish will swear that there can be no such fish as that. Beware of those who use words to mean their opposites. At the same time have pity on them, for usually this trick is their o…
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Appears in: Boston Globe, Chronicle, Crossroads, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, NYT, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.
Used 45 times in crossword archives (1949–2024).