stingy

Preposition: with

• holiday: Other Related Gripes People standing in the way Employers stingy with holiday Why do the British queue so much?
• relief: Daniel Drezner has a go at clearing things up: 1 ) Is the United States stingy with disaster relief?
• aid: Drezner goes on: 2 ) Beyond humanitarian relief, is the United States stingy with aid?

Modifies a noun

• portion: Also, with the tomato coming in rather a stingy portion there is very little moisture from the fillings either.
• man: He does not waste his property and neither is he a stingy man.
• thing: She - " " You want her all to yourself, you stingy old thing!
• side: The soup was lovely but the two small pieces of sliced french bread seemed a bit on the stingy side!
• person: The £ 10,995 Sport SR, which replaces the 160SR, is a bargain in even the stingiest person 's mind.
• people: Perfect for stingy people with both a conscience and good taste in music.

Modifying Another Word

• too: All the tracks are as previous, so it looks like they were just too stingy to shell out for the artwork!
• so: I really have to move on very quickly because you've been so stingy with time.
• very: Similarly, the tomato was okay but there was a very stingy portion of it as well - 2 slices in the entire sandwich.
• not: I am not stingy in compliments to him myself.
• little: The crispy duck with pancakes was superb, although they were a little stingy on the plum sauce.
• quite: We were all quite stingy, apart from Jonathan Fullarton, who owes the museum £ 100.

Used with adjective complement

• seem: Article continues The Blairs have always seemed stingy in a way that only the British middle class can be.
• become: The exceptions are women aged over 54 and men over 60, who should contract in simply because the contracting-out payment becomes too stingy.