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| 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 |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | close-fisted |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | stingy |
| Synonyms: | cheap, close-handed, hard-fisted, mean, miserly, parsimonious, penny-pinching, penurious, pinching, tight, tightfisted |
| Main Entry: | costive |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | stingy |
| Synonyms: | cheap, close, close-fisted, frugal, miserly, parsimonious, penny-pinching, penurious, pinching, tight, tightfisted |
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