stingily

1 But when the remark was made in his presence that the United States treated their diplomatic representatives stingily, he fired up, and discoursed most eloquently on the advantages of high thoughts and humble living....

2 His very sleep was stingily meted out to him: "Too much sleep stupefies a fellow!"

3 I got her somehow to talk of herself and her antecedents, but rather stingily.

4 We stingily hoard up within our breasts the last remnants of feeling—a treasure concealed by avarice, and which remains utterly unprofitable.

5 Leader seems to agree with those critics who accused Atlas of being hostile to Bellow, prissily disapproving of the life and stingily dismissive of the art.

6 until his redemption, Ebenezer Scrooge is the classic example of a very stingy, heartless miser

7 It’s also got a good public restroom, which is no small luxury — in my opinion, bathrooms on King County trails are too sparse, stingily parceled out for fast-moving bicyclists, not 3-mile-an-hour pedestrians.

8 The touches of humor those characters supply are welcome, if also somewhat stingily rationed.

9 I cannot believe that this beautiful poet soul was so stingily endowed by Nature, and had but one spring-time.

10 Who cares that the Argentine peso would be cheap even if stingily issued by the most austere of central banks?

11 It's another MBV album to get lost in, but the new tracks are dished out rather stingily tonight.

12 Its thatch is hollow; the peat-smoke curls stingily from its stunted chimney.

13 Poles who in recent years sneered stingily about the cost of transporting their leaders around the world may now wish that they had been more generous.

14 With her he still lived stingily, kept her half-starved, and put the money into the bank in his own name.

15 The least attractive thing one could do in the US is tip stingily.

16 Mara’s later unraveling at her father’s wake and a near-threesome between Mara, Aaron and Ben exposes further family trauma, though details are stingily meted out.

17 Mr. Johnson barely moves when he speaks, and he doles out words stingily, suggesting steady discomfort, as if holding his breath and waiting for the moment to pass.

18 The forks and knives should be made of white plastic and stingily supplied, as if they are about to run out at any minute.

19 On another they were hard, dry, unlovable things, and the pickled chipotles that had made the tostada so exciting the first time were applied stingily.

20 When one gives at all, it should be with a lavish hand, and not stingily as is that niggard's wont.

1 针刺

pinprick needlestick

2 吝啬

stingy miserly parsimonious penny-pinching ungenerous niggardly mingy mean-minded meanly parsimoniously ungenerously meanness parsimony stinginess miserliness niggardliness narrow-fisted mean little small close near tight narrow managing skinny shabby scant paltry scaly sordid skimpy scanty screwy grudging illiberal churlish penurious niggard tightfisted unhandsome costive cheeseparing pinchpenny close-fisted hardfisted gripple skimpingly nearly charily pikerism closeness nearness smallness penury littleness illiberality chariness pinch skimp scrimp iron fisted

3 吝啬地

meanly parsimoniously ungenerously skimpingly nearly charily

4 刺痛

bitter biting prickly burry atingle bite stitch stab sting tingle prick twinge prickle smart Nip

5 小气地

skimpingly meanly

6 小气

mean close narrow scotch skimpy miserly small-minded penny-pinching chintzy ungenerous pimping niggard mingy unhandsome cheeseparing close-fisted skimpingly meanly pikerism meanness smallness parsimony