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tightwad
[ tahyt-wod ]
noun
Informal.
- a close-fisted or stingy person.
tightwad
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noun
- slang.a stingy person; miser
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That year, tightwad Brown vetoed the entire budget.
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To be sure — nobody in Dipoto’s position is going to say “we had three or four whales lined up if only our tightwad chairman would have opened up his checkbook.â€
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Dear Carolyn: My friend’s daughter is getting married and the groom’s parents are tightwads.
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And what D.C. fans endured after tightwad Clark Griffith sold Bucky Harris in the late 1920s and traded the rest of the talent away from the Senators in the mid-1930s.
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The results of the survey by CRC Research are consistent with previous polls showing that by and large, Americans are climate tightwads.
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