stingily

adverb

Definition of stingilynext
as in meagerly

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for stingily
  1. meagerly
  2. insufficiently
  3. sparely
  4. scantily
  5. shabbily
  6. miserably
  7. meanly
  8. grossly
Adverb
  • Limón would like to see the state stop subsidizing corporations who pay so meagerly that their employees qualify for Medi-Cal.
    — Anita Chabria, Mercury News, 3 June 2026
  • When opportunities arise, whether lowly paid or not, we’re often left with no other choice than to take the role that pays meagerly.
    — Robyn Mowatt, Essence, 1 Sep. 2025
Definition of meagerly
Adverb
  • Or… 2) Miami is insufficiently impressed and spends its likely very high 2027 first-round draft pick on a QB with the clear intent for the rookie to soon replace Willis.
    — Greg Cote, Miami Herald, 4 Sep. 2026
  • Especially exciting to him was the German student movement, which combined support for liberation across the non-Western world with attacks on what the students considered the suffocating (and still insufficiently de-Nazified) Federal Republic.
    — Isaac Chotiner, New Yorker, 3 Sep. 2026
Definition of insufficiently
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  • Maps show the location of the crash is sparely populated and the two-lane road has no street lighting.
    — Mark Price, Miami Herald, 12 Aug. 2025
Definition of sparely
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  • More state complaints and a lawsuit have been filed in the last two weeks against a Boca Raton psychiatrist accused of asking female patients to dress scantily and show their breasts during video appointments.
    — David J. Neal, Miami Herald, 4 June 2026
  • The job post comes from Joi, which hosts a large catalog of online chatbots, many of them scantily clad women.
    — Michael Kan, PC Magazine, 27 May 2026
Definition of scantily
Adverb
  • Her fury at Helios employees being treated so shabbily is matched only by her disbelief at Ger and his crew’s recklessness in allowing the consoles monitoring and controlling all of Happy Valley’s life-support systems and communications with the Titan mission unstaffed.
    — Sophie Brookover, Vulture, 1 May 2026
Definition of shabbily
Adverb
  • National Socialism failed miserably in Adolf Hitler’s National Socialist (Nazi) Germany.
    — Sun Sentinel Editorial Board, Sun Sentinel, 25 Aug. 2026
  • After Carlson officially flamed out, Brayden Narveson failed miserably.
    — Rob Reischel, Forbes.com, 4 Aug. 2026
Definition of miserably
Adverb
  • Fortunately, there is the compelling, if meanly portrayed, character of Michael Berman, John’s partner in the George enterprise.
    — Lisa DePaulo, HollywoodReporter, 13 Mar. 2026
  • Kardashian was in court to share new details from a horrific assault in the name of seeking justice; to comment meanly on her outfit would have been a weird move.
    — Ellen Cushing, The Atlantic, 19 May 2025
Definition of meanly
Adverb
  • The agency was a pseudo-governmental commission with no legal authority, staffed by grossly unqualified appointees, including a teenage programmer known as Big Balls.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 26 Aug. 2026
  • Using that study to characterize who holds the most influential jobs in sports media is grossly misleading.
    — Bobby Burack OutKick, FOXNews.com, 18 Aug. 2026
Definition of grossly
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“Stingily.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/stingily. Accessed 5 Sep. 2026.

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