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stinting::adjective | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | economical, frugal, scotch, sparing |
stinting in bestowing gifts.
Examples of stinting
stinting
That's a tally many on the other side of the aisle would find all too stinting.
From the washingtonpost.com
A supplier of supermarket pesto has been caught stinting on the ingredients.
From the guardian.co.uk
George Bush has no patience for those who accuse him of stinting on public education.
From the time.com
All are signs the club could be stinting on upkeep to balance its books.
From the businessweek.com
In this strategy, there can be no stinting in needed internal reforms.
From the forbes.com
The automaker is not stinting on marketing dollars to make its case.
From the businessweek.com
The quality measures are intended to prevent hospitals from stinting on care to reduce costs.
From the delawareonline.com
Despite stinting on some portions of the budget, the company has been generous with his bonuses and raises.
From the businessweek.com
Cracker didn't pick up 28 significant television awards on its journey into the nation's heart by stinting on the detail.
From the independent.co.uk
- Scrimp: subsist on a meager allowance; "scratch and scrimp"
- Stretch: an unbroken period of time during which you do something; "there were stretches of boredom"; "he did a stretch in the federal penitentiary"
- Least sandpiper: smallest American sandpiper
- Supply sparingly and with restricted quantities; "sting with the allowance"
- An individual's prescribed share of work; "her stint as a lifeguard exhausted her"
- (stinting) economical: avoiding waste; "an economical meal"; "an economical shopper"; "a frugal farmer"; "a frugal lunch"; "a sparing father and a spending son"; "sparing in their use of heat and light"; "stinting in bestowing gifts"; "thrifty because they remember the great Depression"; "` ...
- A stint is one of several very small waders in the paraphyletic "Calidris" assemblage - often separated in Erolia -, which in North America are known as peeps. They are scolopacid waders much similar in ecomorphology to their distant relatives, the charadriid plovers.
- A period of time spent doing or being something. A spell; To stop (an action); cease, desist; To stop speaking or talking (of a subject); To be sparing or mean
- (Stinting) Limiting, especially the rights of pasture.
