词为我用 - stingy

词汇释义

stingyUK  /ˈstɪn.dʒi/ US  /ˈstɪn.dʒi/TEM8IELTS    GRE

adj, If you describe someone as stingy, you are criticizing them for being unwilling to spend money.吝啬的，小气的

外刊例句

1. Even when I taught during financial "good times", our school struggled to keep the roof together – literally – and stationery purchases were stingy.(The Guardian)

2. But it was to Ed Miliband that they bared their sharpest teeth, asking him the toughest questions and proving stingy with their applause.(The Guardian)

3. It should be noted that Bachmann herself was a prodigious fundraiser, garnering over $15m for her race in 2012 – but Democrats can't even celebrate a blow to Republicans' coffers, as Bachmann was notoriously stingy with using her funds to support other GOP candidates.(The Guardian - Opinion)

4. The world's third-largest economy has yet to grant asylum to a single Syrian. The treatment meted out to Syrians is consistent with Japan's stingy record on sheltering people fleeing conflicts of all kinds.(The Economist)

5. On the other hand, RomneyCare depends on federal Medicaid funding to handle poor residents, and turning that funding into stingy block-grants, as Mr Romney currently proposes, might destroy the system.(The Economist)

6. Once notoriously stingy, websites are now putting cartoonists on their payroll.(The Economist)

7. In such cases, a stingy but predictable regime might be preferable to a lucrative one that suffers from frequent or dramatic revisions.(The Economist)

8. Just how stingy it is emerges from a report this week from the OECD: the promise made to today's young workers is the least generous in the developed world. Monika Queisser and Edward Whitehouse, the report's authors, estimate what those who are young today will get from the state and compulsory private-pension schemes when they hang up their boots in 2050 or thereabouts.(The Economist)

9. An ICM poll that came out at the same time revealed that they tend to blame slow growth on factors beyond Mr Osborne's control such as the previous government's debts, stingy bank-lending and the euro crisis.The real political hazard for Mr Osborne is not a sudden loss of faith in his fiscal strategy, either on the part of markets or voters though there is some risk of both.(The Economist)

10. In the eyes of most south Louisianans, the federal government has been a bit stingy when it comes to reinforcing flood defences.(The Economist)

词汇搭配

be stingy with | stingy person, people | a bit, very stingy

词汇来源

"niggardly, penurious, extremely tight-fisted," 1650s, of uncertain origin, perhaps a dialectal alteration of earlier stingy "biting, sharp, stinging" (1610s), from sting (v.). Back-formation stinge "a stingy person" is recorded from 1905.

近义词

mean, mingy, miserly, niggard, niggardly, parsimonious, penny-pinching, penurious, pinchpenny, tightfisted, uncharitable, ungenerous

反义词

bounteous, bountiful, charitable, freehanded, generous, munificent, openhanded, unsparing, unstinting

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