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stingy

adjective
  1. Ungenerously or pettily reluctant to spend money: cheap, close, close-fisted, costive, hard-fisted, mean 2, miserly, niggard, niggardly, parsimonious, penny-pinching, penurious, petty, pinching, tight, tightfisted. See give
  2. Conspicuously deficient in quantity, fullness, or extent: exiguous, meager, poor, puny, scant, scanty, skimpy, spare, sparse, thin. Slang: measly. See big, excess
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