Stinginess

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. The state or quality of being stingy; extreme avarice; niggardliness; miserliness.
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  • noun. The quality or state of being stingy.
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  • noun. A lack of generosity.
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  • noun. a lack of generosity; a general unwillingness to part with money
    • Word Usage
    "Yet Congress's stinginess is being compounded by the administration's recent decision to reject a request from New York and several other states to increase food stamp outlays to the poor as fuel bills mount."
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    trait  
    Hyponym
    Words that are more specific
    closeness  illiberality  meanness  minginess  niggardliness  
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    bitchiness  covetousness  cowardliness  cupidity  dissimulation  
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