Sentence examples for downright stingy from inspiring English sources

Washington State has been downright stingy on the defensive end against Notre Dame.

Washington was left navigating the crisis through a rear-view mirror, and a smudged one at that.If government was too thrifty before, it looks downright stingy in the light of new information.

At a time when the annual tally of theatrical movie releases hovers around 500, and when every town with a population over that number seems to have its own film festival, those lists and prizes can seem downright stingy.

Its cash offer of £9.50 ($16.60) a share, which would cost the Americans £2.4 billion, makes the preceding bid—£5.80, from Australia's Macquarie Bank, only three months ago look downright stingy.NASDAQ's offer was rejected outright by the LSE's management, but is being considered by big shareholders.

Signs of the times: government bureaucracies funding themselves by foisting debt on state-owned business enterprises; local governments raising capital by selling land at sky-high prices to corporations they own; and a People's Bank of China lavishing liquidity on the entire system in a way that makes Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke look downright stingy.

But despite living in the fourth largest city in North America, Toronto's drinking laws feel downright stingy, where bars are forced to close at 2 AM sharp. .

SCHLESINGER'S history of himself is rich with other historical insights, candid (though not particularly introspective) about his own misjudgments, disappointingly stingy with his domestic and inner lives and downright tiresome in his excavations of journal trivia, press clips and encomiums.

Downright Stengelian.

"STINGY" it is not.

Downright unAmerican?

Stingy, mean, miserly.