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tightfisted

adjective as in cheap

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Davis was a centrist who tried to be tightfisted.

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The programme also captures the Deputy Prime Minister, Angela Rayner, joking with a group of builders that Ms Reeves is the "moneybags" and she is "tightfisted".

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A much more tightfisted healthcare system means that the share of immigrants without insurance is far higher in Texas.

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UW alums were encouraged to twist the arms of tightfisted friends and neighbors.

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She has assumed such unappealing duties as overseeing who gets paid, with a hand that aides have described as tightfisted.

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