stinginess

Example Sentences

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But he is constantly flummoxed by the stinginess of some customers.

From New York Times • Apr. 9, 2023

They have regained some of their defensive stinginess.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 14, 2023

Yet to these Cubs, a big-market team whose stinginess in recent winters has frustrated fans who do not understand it, the splurge on Swanson signals a change in approach.

From Washington Post • Dec. 18, 2022

There are a couple of reasons for societal stinginess.

From Reuters • Dec. 9, 2021

And so I closed the Bible and to that group of women clustering close, I told the truth about myself—my self-centeredness, my stinginess, my lack of love.

From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom