Synonyms:
meager, meagre, meagerly, stingy, scrimpy
Meaning: deficient in amount or quality or extent; "meager resources"; "meager fare"
Synonyms:
stingy, ungenerous
Meaning: unwilling to spend; "she practices economy without being stingy"; "an ungenerous response to the appeal for funds"
Usage examples
Small ears indicate that a person is stingy.
"Marilla is not stingy, Davy," said Anne severely.
If Marilla wasn't so stingy with her jam I believe I'd grow a lot faster."
If Marilla had been stingy she wouldn't have taken you and Dora when your mother died.
'You always were a stingy old hunks', said the youth, 'and so you are still, when you won't take your own son in.'
"If you mean ECONOMICAL, it's a VERY different thing from being stingy. It is an excellent trait in a person if she is economical.
If he had been an ill-natured stingy wretch it would have been nothing; but Frederick is such a noble-hearted fellow--I dare say he would give me a thousand pounds if I were to ask him, for he don't care about money."