Translation for '
stingy' from English to Czech
| ADJ | stingy | stingier | stingiest |
| SYNO | meager | meagerly | meagre | ... |
ADJ positive | comparative | superlative
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- Schroeder, George. (2019-10-12) "No. 5 Oklahoma with a stingy defense and CeeDee Lamb prove too much for Texas". "USA Today". Retrieved 2020-04-26.
- Shema has been described as a "stingy governor," for his refusal to open the State's vault for Katsina politicians, a characteristic he shares with his predecessor, Umaru Musa Yar'adua .
- In the first floor dwell an incompetent veterinarian with an equally impossible clientele, and an overcrowded guesthouse run by a stingy woman.
- A study by Felipe (1970) revealed that, after traits that exhibit both evaluative and descriptive consistency, traits that are descriptively but not evaluatively consistent ("stingy" and "firm") are assumed to co-occur more often than traits that show evaluative but not descriptive consistency ("stingy" and "over permissive").
- OSU's stingy D stuffs Jonathan Stewart on 4th down, to clinch the first victory on enemy soil for either team since 1996.
- In a small village there lived a stingy miser who, because he could not bear the expense of paying for food for a wife, lived entirely by himself.
- Pubbaka is given as an example as a stingy person who loses everything for money.
- In an episode of "The Nanny", CC comments on the fact that Niles is so stingy with his money that he "bought a Flowbee just so you could do your own hair!".
- Some spanking implements can be characterised as being either 'stingy' or 'thuddy'.
- While most of the lyrics are in Taivoan, the word "Lawkhema" (literally "Old Hen", implying a stingy person in Hakka Chinese) that appears in the song repeatedly is a Hakka Chinese term that the singers sing to mock Hakka people, showing the negative stereotype believed by many Taivoan people that the immigrants are mean and stingy.
- "Ol' Clip-Clop: A Ghost Story" is a 2013 book by Patricia McKissack about John Leep, a stingy landlord, who cheats a tenant but then gets his come-uppance.
- Monsieur Grandet (Carmet) was a very rich but very stingy man. His wife (Dominique Labourier) and his daughter Eugénie (Alexandra London) live a quiet, joyless existence.
- She did not like her public duties and was given a name for being stingy and misusing her position for economic purposes.
- He also tries to convince Marion to have a child. He assumes all expenses of the couple and is also very stingy, ready to do anything to spend the least money possible.
- Jaya is not able to tolerate her husband's stingy attitude and leaves the house when she is pregnant.
- 55. Kapitha (Kapisa) meaning a person who refuses to help because he is miserly and stingy or who burns something.
- Those factors, such as laziness, being stingy or temperament are considered important for divorce decisions.
- "The Shipman's Tale" is similar to some of Boccaccio's stories in his "Decameron" and tells the story of a stingy merchant, his greedy wife and her lover.
- Ukrainians are depicted as rustic, stingy, and inordinately fond of salted "salo" (pork back fat); their accent, which is imitated, is perceived as funny.
- In Iraq, the expression is " [...] " (...), referring to the people of Mosul who are supposedly stingy.
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