tight-wad
Example Sentences
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"Was Clarence a tight-wad?" asked Sube with interest.
From Sube Cane by Partridge, Edward Bellamy
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.
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
I just tell you what," he resumed, "no one yet ever called Georgie Calendar a tight-wad.
From The Black Bag by Vance, Louis Joseph
It was true that Sweet was a "tight-wad," as the boys expressed it.
From The Girls of Central High on Lake Luna or, The Crew That Won by Morrison, Gertrude W.
