stinted

English

Adjective

stinted (comparative more stinted, superlative most stinted)

1. (dated) Constrained; restrained; confined.
   • 1846 October 1 – 1848 April 1, Charles Dickens, “Paul grows more and more Old-fashioned, and goes Home for the Holidays”, in Dombey and Son, London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published 1848, →OCLC, page 133:

     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 January, Currer Bell [pseudonym; Charlotte Brontë], “A Burial”, in Villette. […], volume II, London: Smith, Elder & Co., […], →OCLC, page 271:

     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, Jacob A[ugust] Riis, “The Color Line in New York”, in How the Other Half Lives: Studies among the Tenements of New York, New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner’s Sons, →OCLC, page 150:

     Nevertheless, he has always had to pay higher rents than even these for the poorest and most stinted rooms.

Verb

stinted

1. simple past and past participle of stint

Anagrams

• dentist, distent