pinchfist

Example Sentences

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He does not do this because he is a pinchfist or is reluctant to win the war, but because he is a man of solid sense, who was raised to respect plain arithmetic.

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He still remembers too well his first job at $2 a week, the pinchfist thrift he learned when he had to note down in a little black book every penny he spent.

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He is the tightest, stingiest, string-saving, pinchfist Administrator the U.S.

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But Playwright Roosevelt added a curtain-raiser to Act I, in which he himself appeared in a new role�that of a penny-squeezing pinchfist.

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A majority seemed to agree with the Senate's biggest apple-grower and economiser, peeling-paring pinchfist Mr. Byrd.

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