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Definition of Stingiest
1. stingy [adj] - See also: stingy
Lexicographical Neighbors of Stingiest
Literary usage of Stingiest
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Hot Stuff, by Famous Funny Men: Comprising Wit, Humor, Pathos, Ridicule by Melville De Lancey Landon (1901)
"... The stingiest miser in Schenectady was Deacon Chase. He was stingy all his
life, and even died stingy. When his wife died he bought a double gravestone, ..."
2. Every where by Will Carleton (1908)
"I set an' studied half an hour to make de fac' appear Who ivas de stingiest man
I knowed in all de country near; An' den 1 bor'd ob him dat night (I ..."
3. George Eliot's Works by George Eliot (1893)
"There was no having his own way in the stables; everything was managed in the
stingiest fashion. His grandfather persisted in retaining as head groom an old ..."
4. Proceedings of the Annual Meeting (1897)
"He was one of the first to settle down, and has now sixty head; and some of the
Indians say he is the stingiest man they ever saw, because no accident ever ..."
5. Encyclopaedia Britannica, a Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and edited by Hugh Chisholm (1910)
"He was one of the wealthiest, and at the same time one of the stingiest, magnates
of his day. His ignorance of any language but his own made his intercourse ..."
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