How to use "stingy" in sentences with meaning in English and Hindi

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Example sentences for "stingy" in popular movie and book plots

  • Pericle intends to sue the rich owner of the clinic: a stingy and cruel baron, and so he falls on purpose of his wife.  - Freewheeling (film)
  • Joo Joong-won (So Ji-sub) is the stingy and greedy CEO of Kingdom, a conglomerate that includes a major department store and hotel.  - Master's Sun
  • In Rome the rich and stingy landowner Argante believed to be sick in any possible harm, although born as a fish.  - Il malato immaginario
  • Jaya not able to tolerate her husband's stingy attitude and leaves the house when she is pregnant.  - Edurinti Mogudu Pakkinti Pellam
  • All of the musical instruments are rented from a stingy music store owner ironically named mr Flower (Porter Hall).  - They Shall Have Music
  • Antonio is lavish and steals his stingy brother's money.  - Toto, Peppino, and the Hussy
  • The stingy boss rents a building for its low rental rate, even though he is aware that people had died from unnatural causes there.  - Troublesome Night 10
  • Geremia, an aging tailor/money lender, is a repulsive, mean, stingy man who lives in his shabby house with his scornful, bedridden mother.  - The Family Friend
  • He applies for an insurance job, and successfully talks a stingy client into buying a large policy, thus securing a good commission and a job.  - Get Hep to Love
  • He lives as a tenant of a stingy landlord Vishwas Sarpotdar (Sudhir Joshi).  - Ashi Hi Banwa Banwi
  • Scrooge, being his typical stingy self, goes into a rant of "A dollar forty-nine.  - Sport Goofy in Soccermania
  • He constantly sends his wife to his brother Kassim Baba's house to borrow flour so they can eat, but the stingy Kassim Baba (S.  - Ali Baba Bujang Lapok
  • The resident American businessman, John Smith (played by Philip Anthony), is an abusive, rude and stingy landowner.  - Panaghoy sa Suba
  • Donald still prefers a soda, so Scrooge gives up and goes to the park to find a newspaper (he's too stingy to buy one).  - The Second-Richest Duck
  • "Rollercop" - When Nicko Pendle requests a form of transport from his stingy superior, Chief Inspector Foulridge.  - The Treacle People
  • One day, they spot a stingy Seth(a wealthy man) & send him a fake typewritten extortion note, hoping to relieve him of his money.  - Khel Khel Mein

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