stinted
Adjective
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Adjective
stinted
- (dated) Constrained; restrained; confined.
- c.1846-1848, Charles Dickens, Dombey and Son, Chapter 14: Paul grows more and more Old-fashioned, and goes Home for the Holidays,
- Neither Mr Toots nor Mr Feeder could partake of this or any other snuff, even in the most stinted and moderate degree, without being seized with convulsions of sneezing.
- 1853, Currer Bell (Charlotte Brontë), Villette, Chapter XXVI: A Burial,
- Mr. Home himself offered me a handsome sum—thrice my present salary—if I would accept the office of companion to his daughter. I declined. I think I should have declined had I been poorer than I was, and with scantier fund of resource, more stinted narrowness of future prospect.
- 1890, Jacob Riis, How the Other Half Lives, Chapter XIII: The Color Line in New York,
- Nevertheless, he has always had to pay higher rents than even these for the poorest and most stinted rooms.
- c.1846-1848, Charles Dickens, Dombey and Son, Chapter 14: Paul grows more and more Old-fashioned, and goes Home for the Holidays,
- Simple past tense and past participle of stint
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