If you are looking to describe someone with a Scrooge or Grinch like tendency to pinch his pennies, then stingy can be your adjective of choice. Or, if you are looking to describe something you have too little of like a 43 second coffee break you can use stingy as well.
Stinging; able to sting.
Adjective
not generous; "she practices economy without being stingy"; "an ungenerous response to the appeal for funds"
Adjective S.
selfishly unwilling to share with others
a.
Stinging; able to sting.
superl.
Extremely close and covetous; meanly avaricious;
niggardly; miserly; penurious; as, a stingy churl.
Stingy
Stingy
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.
Stinging; able to sting.
Extremely close and covetous; meanly avaricious; niggardly; miserly; penurious;
Usage Examples
My main concern is theater, and theater does not reflect or mirror society. It has been stingy and selfish, and it has to do better.
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