stinginess
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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
And though stinginess has come against relatively weak offenses — it’s still the NFL.
From Seattle Times ● Oct. 29, 2023
They have regained some of their defensive stinginess.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 14, 2023
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
Whose whims had been taken seriously by adults and who grew up to be the stingiest, greediest people on earth and out of their stinginess grew their stingy little love that ate everything in sight.
From "Song of Solomon" by Toni Morrison
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