Stinginess in example sentence

Leah had been saying something I had not caught, and the charwoman remarked-- "She gets good wages, I guess?""Yes," said Leah; "I wish I had as good; not that mine are to complain of,--there's no stinginess at Thornfield; but they're not one fifth of the sum Mrs. Poole receives.

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Their opposites - stinginess, injustice, anger, laziness, distraction, and ignorance - are unsuccessful actions, which lead to negative evolutionary mutations that take you down the chain through animal incarnations."

By the same token, I cannot think of a single economy whose long-term growth prospects were damaged by excessive fiscal stinginess.

Europe lags behind the US in R&D, and its stinginess over defense contributes mightily to a growing high tech "investment gap."

The Musketeer could not forget the evil reports which then prevailed, and which indeed have survived them, of the procurators of the period--meanness, stinginess, fasts; but as, after all, excepting some few acts of economy which Porthos had always found very unseasonable, the procurator’s wife had been tolerably liberal--that is, be it understood, for a procurator’s wife--he hoped to see a household of a highly comfortable kind.

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