I can sit by my fire and know that no one will come home to fret at me,that I shall encounter no cold looks, no sneers, no bursts of anger, no snarl of stinginess, no contempt of my opinion and advice.

And thus, though most of them laughed at Becky's last "move," they were prejudiced against her for it, and thought it another evidence of her stinginess and sharpness.

Parsimony N. parsimony, parcity^; parsimoniousness^, stinginess &c adj.; stint; illiberality, tenacity.

There are further charges of obstinately objecting, out of mere stinginess, to take proper measures for the naval defence of the country, and of withholding a sufficient supply of ammunition from her ships when about to meet the enemy.

By what miracle of stinginess had she been able to save such a sum? "Ah! my poor Martine," he said at last, laughing, "that is the reason, then, that we have been eating so many potatoes of late.

He underwent no change from the beginning to the very end, but was august without sullenness, gentle without humiliating lowliness, prudent, yet did no injury, just without inquisitorial qualities, a close administrator without stinginess, highminded, but devoid of boasts.]

And so was Aberalva left "a virgin city," undefiled by Government interference, to the blessings of that "local government," which signifies, in plain English, the leaving the few to destroy themselves and the many, by the unchecked exercise of the virtues of pride and ignorance, stupidity and stinginess.

''No, you don't,' says I, for I'd had enough of her stinginess.

His wife bore him three sons and three daughters, who are said to have shared his stinginess, though they built him a magnificent monument.

THE TACITURN RAMEAU The next great master in French opera was Rameau (16831764), who resembled Lully in his stinginess, but not in his brilliant social qualities.

Above all, his notorious meanness in his money matters, his stickling with his poor washerwoman for a halfpenny and with others for a farthing, and his uniform stinginess on all occasions rendered him notoriously disgusting to all his acquaintances, and affords, I should imagine, but a poor example for imitation....

The Indians went away with their canoes literally loaded with all an Indian wants, from silver to a steel trap, and a practical demonstration was given which will shut their mouths forever with regard to the oft-repeated scandal of the stinginess and injustice of the American government.

The remarkable feature of his character is stinginess.

As I said, economy is good; but, above all things, shun stinginess.

These proofs of Buonarroti's liberality to brother artists are not unimportant, since he was unjustly accused during his lifetime of stinginess and churlishness.

He's the limit for stinginess!

Besides, she was conspicuous for her industrious, economical ways, and a parsimony in her expenditures that came pretty close to stinginess.

When informed of this scandalous piece of buffoonery, Louis contented himself with saying, "I had rather make courtiers laugh by my stinginess than my people weep by my extravagance."

His peculiar defects are, first of all, stinginess towards soldiers; then he makes large promises, and even when he means to keep his promise he is infinitely slow about it.

If there's anything I can't abide it's stinginess.

She it was who in her "Pillow Talk" with her husband Ailill declared that she had married him only because in him did she find the "strange bride-gift" which her imperious nature demanded, "a man without stinginess, without jealousy, without fear."

And then his stinginess about the ponies would be the gossip of the county for twelve months.

Had they taken him seriouslyhad they even run out at their doors to listen and starehe would not have minded their stinginess.

The doctor began to upbraid her for her stinginess and cruelty.