tight-wad
Example Sentences
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He didn't want Elsie to think he was a tight-wad, or worse still suspect him of being broke.
From Wild Wings A Romance of Youth by Piper, Margaret Rebecca
Badger Billy, being notorious even among his fellows as a tight-wad, swallowed hard, but he produced a small roll of bills and extracted the newest twenty he could find.
From Young Wallingford by Chester, George Randolph
The closest tight-wad in the town will buy a paper if it has his name in it.
From The Cow Puncher by Stead, Robert J. C.
Not a tight-wad, far from that, though he preferred to work for a meal than pay for it; much preferred to walk or ride than to purchase other people's energy, having much of his own.
From Son of Power by Comfort, Will Levington
It's the kind of thing that gives knockers a license to put detectives in the same class as blackmailers—and the old Whey-face himself is a tight-wad.
From The Tyranny of Weakness by Stahr, Paul
