Definitions for stingy

stingy stin·gy

Spelling: [stin-jee]
IPA: /ˈstɪn dʒi/

Stingy is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.

You can make 73 anagrams from letters in stingy (ginsty).

Definitions for stingy

adjective

  1. reluctant to give or spend; not generous; niggardly; penurious:
  2. scanty or meager:
  3. having a sting.

Origin of stingy

1650-60; perhaps derivative of sting; see -y1

Examples for stingy

And the next was when I scolded because she broke a bowl; And she said I was mean and stingy, and hadn't any soul.

It is an old notion that it is easier to be generous than to be stingy.

Each was occupied with his own thoughts, and each was stingy of his breath.

His post-election press conference was too long, too provocative, and too stingy in his phoned-in praise for the winners.

Why, blast their miserable, stingy—What do they take me for?

Tired of being a poster child for stingy salaries, Walmart snarkily takes a leading left-wing critic to task.

The returns revealed the Bidens to be stingy when it came to charity, giving an average of $369 a year for the last decade.

John Paul Getty, Jr. was a major philanthropist, to a slew of causes, and he was not stingy.

My wife left me because she said I was stingy, and she took my child—my only daughter.

I realized that I must have seemed like a mean, stingy old scamp.

Word Value for stingy
Scrable

10

Words with friends

11

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