adv. [f. STINGY a. + -LY2.] In a stingy manner.

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1682.  Dryden’s Satyr to Muse, 194. As loud he roard ’gainst the Prerogative, As sharply blam’d as Stingily wou’d give.

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1701.  Howe, Some Consid. Pref. Enquiry, 28. Such as are … not so stingily bigotted to a Party as he.

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1837.  Carlyle, Fr. Rev., III. I. i. Nor are Patriotic Gifts wanting … nor stingily given.

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1865.  J. G. Holland, Plain Talk, vii. 255. One is a man of wealth, who hoards his money, or spends it stingily or selfishly.

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