tightwad
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Short the buck-fifty admission, 14-year-old Hendrix watched the show perched atop — you guessed it — Tightwad Hill.
From Seattle Times • Jul. 22, 2021
By the time Lavon Coleman had galloped 49 yards for the Huskies’ ninth and final touchdown of the night, the freeloaders watching the game on Tightwad Hill probably felt they had overpaid.
From Seattle Times • Nov. 6, 2016
Nor is he into the extreme home craft of The Tightwad Gazette, the newsletter from the nineties, which recommended that readers make their kids’ Halloween masks out of dryer lint.
From The New Yorker • Feb. 29, 2016
Q. Charity Tightwad: I am trying to instill in my young children the importance of being generous and empathic to others in need, but during the holidays I feel like such a hypocrite.
From Slate • Dec. 1, 2015
Old Alden P. Tightwad, the prince of misers!
From Cappy Ricks Retires by Kyne, Peter B. (Peter Bernard)
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