| sting | (noun) a swindle in which you cheat at gambling or persuade a person to buy worthless property | Synonyms: bunco, bunco game, bunko, bunko game, con, con game, confidence game, confidence trick, flimflam, hustle |
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| (noun) operation designed to catch a person committing a criminal act | Synonyms: sting operation |
| (noun) a kind of pain; something as sudden and painful as being stung | Synonyms: stinging |
| (noun) a painful wound caused by the thrust of an insect's stinger into skin | Synonyms: bite, insect bite |
| (noun) a mental pain or distress | Synonyms: pang |
| (verb) saddle with something disagreeable or disadvantageous | Synonyms: stick |
| (verb) deliver a sting to | Synonyms: bite, prick |
| (verb) cause an emotional pain, as if by stinging | - |
| (verb) cause a stinging pain | Synonyms: prick, twinge |
| (verb) cause a sharp or stinging pain or discomfort | Synonyms: bite, burn |
| stinger | (noun) a sharp stinging blow | - |
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| (noun) a sharp organ of offense or defense (as of a wasp or stingray or scorpion) often connected with a poison gland | - |
| (noun) a remark capable of wounding mentally | Synonyms: cut |
| (noun) a cocktail made of made of creme de menthe and brandy | - |
| stingily | (adverb) in a stingy manner | Synonyms: cheaply, chintzily |
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| stinginess | (noun) a lack of generosity; a general unwillingness to part with money | - |
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| stinging | (adjective) (of speech) harsh or hurtful in tone or character | Synonyms: cutting, edged |
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| (noun) a kind of pain; something as sudden and painful as being stung | Synonyms: sting |
| stingless | (adjective) without a sting | - |
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| stingray | (noun) large venomous ray with large barbed spines near the base of a thin whiplike tail capable of inflicting severe wounds | - |
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| stingy | (adjective) unwilling to spend (money, time, resources, etc.) | Synonyms: ungenerous |
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| (adjective) deficient in amount or quality or extent | Synonyms: meager, meagerly, meagre, scrimpy |
| stink | (noun) a distinctive odor that is offensively unpleasant | Synonyms: fetor, foetor, malodor, malodour, mephitis, reek, stench |
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| (verb) smell badly and offensively | Synonyms: reek |
| (verb) be extremely bad in quality or in one's performance | - |
| stinkbird | (noun) crested ill-smelling South American bird whose young have claws on the first and second digits of the wings | Synonyms: hoactzin, hoatzin, Opisthocomus hoazin |
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| stinker | (noun) an artifact (especially an automobile) that is defective or unsatisfactory | Synonyms: lemon |
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| (noun) anything that gives off an offensive odor (especially a cheap cigar) | - |
| (noun) a person who is deemed to be despicable or contemptible | Synonyms: bum, crumb, dirty dog, git, lowlife, puke, rat, rotter, scum bag, scumbag, skunk, so-and-so, stinkpot |
| stinkhorn | (noun) any of various ill-smelling brown-capped fungi of the order Phallales | Synonyms: carrion fungus |
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| stinkiness | (noun) the attribute of having a strong offensive smell | Synonyms: fetidness, foulness, malodorousness, rankness |
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| stinking | (adjective) very bad | Synonyms: crappy, icky, lousy, rotten, shitty, stinky |
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| (adjective) offensively malodorous | Synonyms: fetid, foetid, foul-smelling, foul, funky, ill-scented, noisome, smelly |
| stinkpot | (noun) small freshwater turtle having a strong musky odor | Synonyms: musk turtle |
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| (noun) a person who is deemed to be despicable or contemptible | Synonyms: bum, crumb, dirty dog, git, lowlife, puke, rat, rotter, scum bag, scumbag, skunk, so-and-so, stinker |
| stinkweed | (noun) foetid Eurasian weed having round flat pods; naturalized throughout North America | Synonyms: fanweed, field pennycress, French weed, mithridate mustard, penny grass, Thlaspi arvense |
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| stinky | (adjective) having an unpleasant smell | Synonyms: ill-smelling, malodorous, malodourous, unpleasant-smelling |
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| (adjective) very bad | Synonyms: crappy, icky, lousy, rotten, shitty, stinking |
| stint | (noun) an individual's prescribed share of work | - |
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| (noun) smallest American sandpiper | Synonyms: Erolia minutilla, least sandpiper |
| (noun) an unbroken period of time during which you do something | Synonyms: stretch |
| (verb) subsist on a meager allowance | Synonyms: scrimp, skimp |
| (verb) supply sparingly and with restricted quantities | Synonyms: scant, skimp |
| stinter | (noun) an economizer who stints someone with something | - |
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| stinting | (adjective) avoiding waste | Synonyms: economical, frugal, scotch, sparing |
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