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Extremely close and covetous; meanly avaricious; niggardly; miserly; penurious; as, a stingy churl. A stingy, narrow-hearted fellow that had a deal of choice fruit, had not the heart to touch it till it began to be rotten. L'estrange.

Parsimonious; stingy. "A crusty old fellow, as close as a vise." Hawthorne.

Covetous; penurious; stingy; closefisted. -- Close"hand`ed*ness, n.

In a despicable or mean manner; contemptibly; as, despicably stingy.

Closefisted; stingy; mean.

Penurious; stingy; close-fisted; illiberal; as, mean hospitality.

A person meanly close and covetous; one who spends grudgingly; a stingy, parsimonous fellow; a miser. Chaucer. A penurious niggard of his wealth. Milton. Be niggards of advice on no pretense. Pope.

Meanly covetous or avarcious in dealing with others; stingy; niggard. Where the owner of the house will be bountiful, it is not for the steward to be niggardly. Bp. Hall.

iting parsimony; sparing in expenditure of money; frugal to excess; penurious; niggardly; stingy. -- Par`si*mo"ni*ous*ly, adv. -- Par`si*mo"ni*ous*ness, n. A prodigal king is nearer a tyrant than a parsimonious. Bacon. Extraordinary funds for one campaign may spare us the expense of many years; whereas a long, parsim…

Excessively sparing in the use of money; sordid; stingy; miserly. "A penurious niggard of his wealth." Milton.

Sparing; frugal; parsimonious; stingy. [Obs.] "Too scarce ne too sparing." Chaucer. To make one's self scarce, to decamp; to depart. [Slang]

In a stingy manner.

The quality or state of being stingy.