penny-pinching
Example Sentences
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When Annie takes a job at a nightclub in Memphis, she says of its penny-pinching owner: “The man was tight as a skeeter’s teeter.”
From Los Angeles Times
Restaurants are trying to lure back customers after a challenging 2025, where traffic fell and chains pumped out discounts to try to bring penny-pinching consumers back.
As the child of penny-pinching Sicilian parents, I’m all too familiar with the dread surrounding the thermostat come midwinter.
Starring Vanessa Williams as the titular prima donna, the brilliantly named Ebony Scrooge, the film follows Ebony’s transformation from penny-pinching pop star to charitable altruist.
From Salon
Brockman was known for his penny-pinching ways, staying at budget hotels and eating frozen dinners in his room while visiting one of his company’s offices, according to a former executive.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
