| 单词 | stingy |
| 释义 | stin·gy I. 1. dialect chiefly England 2. a. < too stingy even to get a haircut before his wedding > b. < complained about his stingy allowance > < a stingy little attic room > Synonyms: < couldn't help being stingy, since parsimony ran in their blood — Victoria Sackville-West > < had to request the thirteen states for tax levies, and since the states were jealous, stingy, and badly governed, they gave but grudging and inadequate help — Allan Nevins & H.S.Commager > parsimonious, penurious, cheeseparing, and penny-pinching refer to degrees and kinds of frugality. parsimonious suggests extreme frugality with stingy wariness about expenditure < a lonely bachelor life in caring for his property and in adding to it by parsimonious living — A.W.Long > < had now become strictly parsimonious … and … devoted every energy of his mind to save shillings and pence — Anthony Trollope > penurious adds a suggestion of meanness to parsimonious < penurious restrictions upon the payment of legislators designed to discourage them — A.N.Holcombe > cheeseparing suggests a parsimoniousness marked by petty mean little economies < an example of cheeseparing economy at the dire risk of the national security — Walter Millis > penny-pinching suggests greedy, wary parsimoniousness in avoiding expense < a penny-pinching impresario who overlooked no opportunity to cut down the overhead — Bennett Cerf > miserly, curmudgeonly, and niggardly are derogatory or contemptuous terms for extreme illiberality and aversion to spending or dispensing. miserly suggests a morbid pleasure in hoarding, a sordid grasping meanness < expenditure was parsimonious and even miserly — J.R.Green > curmudgeonly suggests mean stinginess and crusty irascibility < the curmudgeonly old fool cutting off his wife with a bare pittance > niggardly implies a stinginess in giving, granting, expending whereby one begrudges any contribution to the welfare or happiness of others < we shall not be niggardly about this — Hugh Dalton > < niggardly monastic prescriptions with regard to gleaning — G.G.Coulton > tight, tightfisted, closefisted, and close are somewhat informal expressions indicating reluctance and chariness about expending or contributing. tight suggests a general chary stinginess of nature or temperament < what in the name of God's the use of being so tight … you've got an expense account, haven't you — Dashiell Hammett > tightfisted and closefisted signify an accustomed reluctance to part with money and a careful vigilance against prodigality < you English are a tightfisted race — T.B.Costain > close, not so derogatory as the others, indicates either a certain stinginess or a marked caution about any expenditure < he wasn't as tight as you … but he was a little bit close so the bargain hung fire — Dashiell Hammett > II. |
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