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stingy

/'stɪŋi/

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adjective
deficient in amount or quality or extent
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meager meagerly meagre scrimpy scanty measly miserable exiguous bare hand-to-mouth paltry hardscrabble spare
adjective
unwilling to spend (money, time, resources, etc.)
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"she practices economy without being stingy"

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ungenerous skinny beggarly cheap cheeseparing chinchy chintzy close closefisted grudging hardfisted mean mingy miserly near niggardly parsimonious penny-pinching penurious scrimy tight tightfisted

Opposite:

generous

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