An article published in Harvard Men’s Health Watch in 2012 shows heavy coffee drinkers live longer. The researchers examined data from 400,000 people and found out that men who drank six or more coffee cups per day had a 10% lower death rate.
STINGILY
stingily, cheaply, chintzily
(adverb) in a stingy manner; “their rich uncle treated them rather chintzily”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Adverb
stingily (comparative more stingily, superlative most stingily)
In a stingy manner.
Source: Wiktionary
Stin"gi*ly, adv.
Definition: In a stingy manner.
STINGY
Sting"y, a.
Definition: Stinging; able to sting.
Stin"gy, a. [Compar. Stingier; superl. Stingiest.] Etym: [Probably from sting, and meaning originally, stinging; hence, biting, nipping (of the wind), churlish, avaricious; or cf. E. skinch.]
Definition: Extremely close and covetous; meanly avaricious; niggardly; miserly; penurious; as, a stingy churl. A stingy, narrow-hearted fellow that had a deal of choice fruit, had not the heart to touch it till it began to be rotten. L'estrange.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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