stingily

Example Sentences

Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.

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.

From Seattle Times • Aug. 27, 2022

They stingily pick which cases go on the docket, and how they are framed and scheduled.

From Fox News • Sep. 19, 2020

More stingily, you could turn to Fran Lebowitz’s first essay collection, “Metropolitan Life,” which includes a three-paragraph harrumph titled “Clothes with Pictures and/or Writing on Them: Yes—Another Complaint.”

From The New Yorker • Jun. 21, 2018

Various constitutional provisions certainly imply a right to vote—but the Supreme Court has interpreted these stingily.

From Slate • Sep. 12, 2017

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

From The Prose Writings of Heinrich Heine by Heine, Heinrich