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"Terms with Finnish translations",
"Terms with French translations",
"Terms with Galician translations",
"Terms with German Low German translations",
"Terms with German translations",
"Terms with Hindi translations",
"Terms with Irish translations",
"Terms with Italian translations",
"Terms with Japanese translations",
"Terms with Korean translations",
"Terms with Mandarin translations",
"Terms with Old English translations",
"Terms with Ottoman Turkish translations",
"Terms with Persian translations",
"Terms with Polish translations",
"Terms with Portuguese translations",
"Terms with Romanian translations",
"Terms with Russian translations",
"Terms with Scots translations",
"Terms with Serbo-Croatian translations",
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"Terms with Volapük translations",
"Terms with Yiddish translations",
"Urdu terms with redundant script codes",
"Yiddish terms with non-redundant manual transliterations"
],
"examples": [
{
"bold_text_offsets": [
[
126,
133
]
],
"ref": "1991, Art Spiegelman, Maus I: My Father Bleeds History, New York: Pantheon Books, page 131:",
"text": "It's something that worries me about the book I'm doing about him... In some ways he's just like the racist caricature of the miserly old Jew.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"bold_text_offsets": [
[
33,
40
],
[
189,
196
]
],
"ref": "2005, J. M. Coetzee, “Three”, in Slow Man, New York: Viking, →ISBN, page 20:",
"text": "What could be more selfish, more miserly—this in specific is what gnaws at him—than dying childless, terminating the line, subtracting oneself from the great work of generation? Worse than miserly, in fact: unnatural.",
"type": "quote"
}
],
"glosses": [
"Like a miser, very or objectionably cautious with money."
],
"links": [
[
"miser",
"miser"
],
[
"cautious",
"cautious"
],
[
"money",
"money"
]
],
"synonyms": [
{
"source": "Thesaurus:stingy",
"tags": [
"dated"
],
"word": "as tight as Dick's hatband"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:stingy",
"word": "cheap"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:stingy",
"word": "cheeseparing"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:stingy",
"word": "chintzy"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:stingy",
"word": "close"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:stingy",
"word": "close as wax"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:stingy",
"word": "close-fisted"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:stingy",
"word": "illiberal"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:stingy",
"word": "mean"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:stingy",
"tags": [
"obsolete"
],
"word": "miserable"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:stingy",
"word": "miserly"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:stingy",
"word": "narrow-fisted"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:stingy",
"word": "niggardly"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:stingy",
"word": "nipcheese"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:stingy",
"word": "parsimonious"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:stingy",
"word": "peddling"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:stingy",
"word": "penny-wise"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:stingy",
"word": "penny-pinching"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:stingy",
"word": "penurious"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:stingy",
"word": "scrooge-like"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:stingy",
"word": "scrubby"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:stingy",
"word": "shabby"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:stingy",
"word": "still got one's communion money"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:stingy",
"word": "stingy"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:stingy",
"tags": [
"British",
"dialectal"
],
"word": "swear"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:stingy",
"word": "tight"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:stingy",
"word": "tight-fisted"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:stingy",
"word": "tight as a tick"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:stingy",
"tags": [
"dated"
],
"word": "tighter than Dick's hatband"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:stingy",
"word": "ungenerous"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:stingy",
"word": "ungiving"
}
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/ˈmaɪ.zə(ɹ).li/"
},
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}
],
"translations": [
{
"code": "ar",
"lang": "Arabic",
"roman": "baḵīl",
"sense": "stingy",
"word": "بَخِيل"
},
{
"code": "be",
"lang": "Belarusian",
"roman": "skupy",
"sense": "stingy",
"word": "скупы"
},
{
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "stisnat",
"sense": "stingy",
"word": "стиснат"
},
{
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "skǎperničeski",
"sense": "stingy",
"word": "скъпернически"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "lìnsè",
"sense": "stingy",
"word": "吝嗇 /吝啬"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "xiǎoqì",
"sense": "stingy",
"word": "小氣 /小气"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "kōumén",
"sense": "stingy",
"tags": [
"informal"
],
"word": "摳門 /抠门"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "kōu",
"sense": "stingy",
"word": "摳 /抠"
},
{
"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "stingy",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "lakomý"
},
{
"code": "da",
"lang": "Danish",
"sense": "stingy",
"word": "gnieragtig"
},
{
"code": "da",
"lang": "Danish",
"sense": "stingy",
"word": "gerrig"
},
{
"code": "da",
"lang": "Danish",
"sense": "stingy",
"word": "nærig"
},
{
"code": "eo",
"lang": "Esperanto",
"sense": "stingy",
"word": "avarula"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "stingy",
"word": "saita"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "stingy",
"word": "itara"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "stingy",
"word": "pihi"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "stingy",
"word": "nuuka"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "stingy",
"word": "avare"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "stingy",
"word": "pingre"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "stingy",
"word": "chiche"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "stingy",
"word": "radin"
},
{
"code": "gl",
"lang": "Galician",
"sense": "stingy",
"word": "mesquiño"
},
{
"code": "gl",
"lang": "Galician",
"sense": "stingy",
"word": "avarento"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "stingy",
"word": "geizig"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "stingy",
"word": "knauserig"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "stingy",
"word": "knausrig"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "stingy",
"word": "gierig"
},
{
"code": "grc",
"lang": "Ancient Greek",
"roman": "pheidōlós",
"sense": "stingy",
"word": "φειδωλός"
},
{
"code": "hi",
"lang": "Hindi",
"roman": "kañjūs",
"sense": "stingy",
"word": "कंजूस"
},
{
"code": "ga",
"lang": "Irish",
"sense": "stingy",
"word": "ocrach"
},
{
"code": "ga",
"lang": "Irish",
"sense": "stingy",
"word": "sprionlaithe"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "stingy",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "avaro"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "stingy",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "tirchio"
},
{
"code": "ja",
"lang": "Japanese",
"roman": "kechi na",
"sense": "stingy",
"word": "けちな"
},
{
"alt": "りんしょくな",
"code": "ja",
"lang": "Japanese",
"roman": "rinshoku na",
"sense": "stingy",
"word": "吝嗇な"
},
{
"code": "ko",
"lang": "Korean",
"roman": "insaek-han",
"sense": "stingy",
"tags": [
"attributive"
],
"word": "인색한"
},
{
"code": "ko",
"lang": "Korean",
"roman": "insaek-hada",
"sense": "stingy",
"tags": [
"predicative"
],
"word": "인색하다"
},
{
"code": "nds-de",
"lang": "Low German",
"sense": "stingy",
"tags": [
"German-Low-German"
],
"word": "giezig"
},
{
"code": "nds-de",
"lang": "Low German",
"sense": "stingy",
"tags": [
"German-Low-German"
],
"word": "gnietschig"
},
{
"code": "nds-de",
"lang": "Low German",
"sense": "stingy",
"tags": [
"German-Low-German"
],
"word": "gnittschig"
},
{
"code": "nds-de",
"lang": "Low German",
"sense": "stingy",
"tags": [
"German-Low-German"
],
"word": "knickerig"
},
{
"code": "nds-de",
"lang": "Low German",
"sense": "stingy",
"tags": [
"German-Low-German"
],
"word": "neetsch"
},
{
"code": "nds-de",
"lang": "Low German",
"sense": "stingy",
"tags": [
"German-Low-German"
],
"word": "näätsch"
},
{
"code": "nds-de",
"lang": "Low German",
"sense": "stingy",
"tags": [
"German-Low-German"
],
"word": "nehrig"
},
{
"code": "nds-de",
"lang": "Low German",
"sense": "stingy",
"tags": [
"German-Low-German"
],
"word": "nährig"
},
{
"code": "nds-de",
"lang": "Low German",
"sense": "stingy",
"tags": [
"German-Low-German"
],
"word": "netig"
},
{
"code": "nds-de",
"lang": "Low German",
"sense": "stingy",
"tags": [
"German-Low-German"
],
"word": "nötig"
},
{
"code": "nds-de",
"lang": "Low German",
"sense": "stingy",
"tags": [
"German-Low-German"
],
"word": "pennschieterig"
},
{
"code": "ang",
"lang": "Old English",
"sense": "stingy",
"word": "hnēaw"
},
{
"code": "ota",
"lang": "Ottoman Turkish",
"roman": "pinti",
"sense": "stingy",
"word": "پنتی"
},
{
"code": "ota",
"lang": "Ottoman Turkish",
"roman": "pis",
"sense": "stingy",
"word": "پیس"
},
{
"code": "fa",
"lang": "Persian",
"roman": "xasis",
"sense": "stingy",
"word": "خسیس"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "stingy",
"word": "skąpy"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "stingy",
"word": "mesquinho"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "stingy",
"word": "pão-duro"
},
{
"code": "ro",
"lang": "Romanian",
"sense": "stingy",
"word": "ciufút"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "skupój",
"sense": "stingy",
"word": "скупо́й"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "skárednyj",
"sense": "stingy",
"word": "ска́редный"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "žádnyj",
"sense": "stingy",
"word": "жа́дный"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "prižímistyj",
"sense": "stingy",
"word": "прижи́мистый"
},
{
"code": "sco",
"lang": "Scots",
"sense": "stingy",
"word": "near the bane"
},
{
"code": "sh",
"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"sense": "stingy",
"word": "škrt"
},
{
"code": "sk",
"lang": "Slovak",
"sense": "stingy",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "lakomý"
},
{
"code": "sk",
"lang": "Slovak",
"sense": "stingy",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "skúpy"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "stingy",
"word": "mezquino"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "stingy",
"word": "tacaño"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "stingy",
"word": "avaro"
},
{
"code": "ur",
"lang": "Urdu",
"roman": "kañjūs",
"sense": "stingy",
"word": "کنجوس"
},
{
"code": "vi",
"lang": "Vietnamese",
"sense": "stingy",
"tags": [
"idiomatic"
],
"word": "bo bo như thần giữ của"
},
{
"code": "vo",
"lang": "Volapük",
"sense": "stingy",
"word": "lavarik"
},
{
"code": "yi",
"lang": "Yiddish",
"roman": "kamtsonish",
"sense": "stingy",
"word": "קמצניש"
}
],
"word": "miserly"
}
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