| Main Entry: |
pinching
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| Part of Speech: |
adjective |
| Definition: |
stingy |
| Synonyms: |
acquisitive,
avaricious, chary,
cheap, chintzy,
churlish,
close, close-fisted, costive,
covetous, curmudgeonly,
economical, extortionate,
frugal, grasping,
greedy, grudging, hard-fisted,
ignoble, illiberal, ironfisted,
mean,
miserly,
narrow,
near, niggard, niggardly,
parsimonious, penny-pinching, pennywise,
penurious,
petty, pinchpenny,
rapacious,
saving, scrimping, scurvy,
selfish, skimping,
sordid, sparing,
thrifty,
tight*, tightfisted, uncharitable, ungenerous, ungiving
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* = informal/non-formal usage
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