Examples of using "Geizig" in a sentence and their english translations:
Tom is miserly.
Don't be so greedy.
Tom isn't stingy.
- Tom is very stingy.
- Tom is very stingy with his money.
- He is very stingy with his money.
- He's very stingy with his money.
He's a bit stingy.
Tom is stingy, isn't he?
He is very frugal, but not stingy.
He is very stingy with his money.
She is frugal, not to say stingy.
Tom is very stingy.
He may be rich, but he is stingy.
She is very frugal, not to say stingy.
I wouldn't want you to think I was mean.
"My wonderful wife is so stingy that ..." "You boasting? Or complaining?"
Accordingly as people become rich, they are apt to be stingy.
Of a rich man who was niggardly he said, "That man does not own his estate, but his estate owns him."
Because Tom, who didn't have his key with him, was too miserly to ring the locksmith, he broke into his own flat.
In the Netherlands, it is the custom that, when during the construction of a house the highest point has been reached and the roof is ready for tiling, the client treats the construction workers to so-called "tile beer" to celebrate this. A flag is then placed on the ridge of the house. If the client is too stingy to treat, not a flag, but a broom is placed.