tightwad
Example Sentences
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That year, tightwad Brown vetoed the entire budget.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 23, 2023
To be sure — nobody in Dipoto’s position is going to say “we had three or four whales lined up if only our tightwad chairman would have opened up his checkbook.”
From Seattle Times ● Jul. 29, 2023
My older brother, who is in charge of the trust’s finances, is a notorious tightwad and will probably not go along with the idea.
From Slate ● Oct. 3, 2021
Less than a month later, Martin, caricatured by the political cartoonist Herblock as a tightwad with a stiff, high collar, said the prospect of a tax cut was causing “excessive optimism.”
From New York Times ● Jun. 13, 2017
My father was pretty frantic, but he’d always been a bit of a tightwad, and I told him again and again I was fine.
From "Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet" by Joanne Proulx
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