Definition of Stingiest

1. Adjective. (superlative of stingy) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Stingiest

1. stingy [adj] - See also: stingy

Lexicographical Neighbors of Stingiest

stimying
sting
sting like a bee
sting operation
stingaree
stingaree-bush
stingarees
stingbull
stinged
stinger
stingerless
stingers
stingfish
stingfishes
stingier
stingiest (current term)
stingily
stinginess
stinginesses
stinging
stinging hair
stinging nettle
stingingly
stingings
stingless
stingo
stingos
stingray
stingrays
stings

Literary usage of Stingiest

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Hot Stuff, by Famous Funny Men: Comprising Wit, Humor, Pathos, Ridicule by Melville De Lancey Landon (1901)
"... The stingiest miser in Schenectady was Deacon Chase. He was stingy all his life, and even died stingy. When his wife died he bought a double gravestone, ..."

2. Every where by Will Carleton (1908)
"I set an' studied half an hour to make de fac' appear Who ivas de stingiest man I knowed in all de country near; An' den 1 bor'd ob him dat night (I ..."

3. George Eliot's Works by George Eliot (1893)
"There was no having his own way in the stables; everything was managed in the stingiest fashion. His grandfather persisted in retaining as head groom an old ..."

4. Proceedings of the Annual Meeting (1897)
"He was one of the first to settle down, and has now sixty head; and some of the Indians say he is the stingiest man they ever saw, because no accident ever ..."

5. Encyclopaedia Britannica, a Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and edited by Hugh Chisholm (1910)
"He was one of the wealthiest, and at the same time one of the stingiest, magnates of his day. His ignorance of any language but his own made his intercourse ..."

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