Adjective: mezquino
Hyphenation: mez‧qui‧no
| Singular m. | mezquino |
| Singular f. | mezquina |
| Plural m. | mezquinos |
| Plural f. | mezquinas |
Sample Sentences
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Era un padre mezquino, y a sus hijos no les compraba dulces no por salud sino por ahorrar. (He was a stingy father, who wouldn't buy his children sweets, not for their health but to save money.)
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Sería mezquino de mi parte no perdonarte por ello cuando no tenías toda la información sobre la situación. (It would be petty of me to not forgive you for it when you did not have all the information about the situation.)
Adjectives inflected like mezquino
periurbano,
desestacionalizado,
cervantesco,
atomístico,
multígrafo,
meseteño,
arriesgado,
metafórico,
extintivo,
metafísico,
megadiverso,
autotrófico,
francoarenoso,
gibareño,
eslávico,
noviolento,
inescrupuloso,
fiduciario,
petromacorisano,
carpenteriano, etc. (List truncated at 20 adjectives)
Etymology
Inherited from Old Spanish mesquino (“poor; beggar, homeless”), also attested in the medieval period as mezquino, from Arabic مِسْكِين (miskīn, “poor”). The sense of “stingy” developed in the early modern period. Compare Portuguese mesquinho. See: Portuguese Adjectives '
mesquinho'.
Verbs referencing "mezquino"
Italian Adjectives
meschino, French Adjectives
mesquin, Portuguese Adjectives
mesquinho, Galician Adjectives
mesquiño.
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