pinchpenny
Example Sentences
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Pinchpenny Rod was regifting it to me.
From Los Angeles Times
You’ll be pleased to know we have one in the pinchpenny person of J. Paul Getty, who pinches countless billions while refusing to pay a penny of ransom for his kidnapped grandson in “All the Money in the World.”
Produced for a pinchpenny $12 million, the movie stars Shailene Woodley and Ansel Elgort as afflicted adolescents who meet at a cancer group-therapy session and fall splendidly in love.
From Time
The Conjuring kept scaring up business, dropping less than 40% in its third week — rare for a horror film — and will end up one of the summer’s top successes: perhaps $300 million worldwide on a pinchpenny $20-million budget.
From Time
If he could keep the ragtag A's in playoff contention on a pinchpenny budget, he might be able to run a winning government on a shoestring.
From Time
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
