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Перевод: stingy
[прилагательное] скупой; скаредный; скудный; ограниченный; жалящий
Тезаурус:
- They viewed the world through dark wrap-around shades beneath pork-pie hats or stingy brims.
- "We can go anywhere we want to afterwards," he added in case he was appearing stingy.
- The story goes that an angry auto body painter noticed his masking tape only had adhesive along its edges and told the salesman: "Take this tape back to your stingy Scotch bosses and tell them to put more adhesive on it."
- The Leeds boss said: "It's hardly been a stingy start to the season.
- Half a century later the top-hatted, side-whiskered Stingy Uncle in Punch was giving the same advice.
- "That stingy bastard - what did you have to do, sleep with him?"
- Regressive rock groups, on the other hand, are stingy with sound; their music is governed by a PURITAN aesthetic of austerity.
- Next I began to worship actors like gods and I'd go and see the same performance again and again, transported, until I learned that the actor, the one I had in mind, was exceptionally polygamous and stingy as a goat and so I let that one go.
- Fernande Olivier, Picasso's mistress, described him as stingy, but he was a good friend to Modigliani, encouraged him to paint and lent him colours, brushes and canvas.
- Related attributes are beautiful and generous, and ugly and stingy respectively.
- STINGY British tourists - some of them spending just 1 a DAY - have shocked a sunshine isle's hotel chiefs.
- Another possibility was Lotus, but Lotus's Colin Chapman was notoriously stingy to his drivers.
- One farming grandfather is remembered as "open hearted, hospitable, a good sport", in contrast to his "stingy and penurious" second wife.
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