stinginess
Example Sentences
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There, among the seamstresses in training, Duncan met other welfare mothers, equally desperate, and recognized the stinginess, indifference and bureaucratic aggravations she’d been suffering in isolation were part of a larger system.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 5, 2026
The girls bought new shoes and ate more meat, but along with Pedro’s financial savvy came a stinginess that extended to his family.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 26, 2024
Philadelphia overcame some offensive struggles with defensive stinginess.
From Seattle Times • Dec. 21, 2022
Her relapse is all the more painful because of the hypocrisy that informs it; it began, after all, as a result of James’s stinginess.
From New York Times • Jan. 25, 2022
Waitresses chafed at managers’ stinginess toward the customers; housecleaners resented the time constraints that sometimes made them cut corners; retail workers wanted the floor to be beautiful, not cluttered with excess stock as management required.
From "Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America" by Barbara Ehrenreich
