1. Adjective
Stinging; able to sting.
2. Adjective form
Extremely close and covetous; meanly avaricious; niggardly; miserly; penurious; as, a stingy churl.
3. Adjective
unwilling to spend (money, time, resources, etc.); "she practices economy without being stingy"; "an ungenerous response to the appeal for funds"
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