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Definition of 'stinted'

English

Adjective

(en-adj)
  • (dated) Constrained; restrained; confined.
  • * c.1846-1848 , , 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 ( , 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 , , 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.

    Verb

    (head)
  • (stint)
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