Many employees complained that the annual raise was stingy compared to rising living costs.

許多員工抱怨，和不斷上漲的生活成本相比，年度加薪實在少得可憐。

The hotel's stingy breakfast buffet offered only toast, coffee, and a few bananas.

這家飯店的自助早餐很寒酸，只有吐司、咖啡和幾根香蕉。

Customers were frustrated by the stingy two-day return window listed on the receipt.

顧客對收據上僅僅兩天的退貨期限感到不滿，覺得太過吝嗇。