pennywise
Example Sentences
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“People are sometimes pennywise and pound foolish, including people with decent amounts of money,” said Josh Rubenstein, a New York attorney who heads the private wealth department at the nationwide law firm Katten.
From Seattle Times • Jul. 12, 2023
The WNBA’s bargain salaries are pennywise and pound foolish.
From Washington Times • May 1, 2019
By bringing in huge initial receipts, elaborate pictures like Maytime, Lost Horizon, A Star is Born have encouraged producers, never inclined to be pennywise, to spend stockholders' funds more freely than ever.
From Time Magazine Archive
It is pennywise, pound-foolish executives like William Agee who squander money on wasteful corporate mergers.
From Time Magazine Archive
And those, of most renown, That once sold doves,—now grown so pennywise To bargain with forlorner merchandise,— They buy and sell, they buy and sell again, The life-long toil of men.
From The Singing Man A Book of Songs and Shadows by Peabody, Josephine Preston
