tightwad

Example Sentences

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That year, tightwad Brown vetoed the entire budget.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 23, 2023

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.”

From Seattle Times • Jul. 29, 2023

My older brother, who is in charge of the trust’s finances, is a notorious tightwad and will probably not go along with the idea.

From Slate • Oct. 3, 2021

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.

From Washington Post • Aug. 6, 2021

My father was pretty frantic, but he’d always been a bit of a tightwad, and I told him again and again I was fine.

From "Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet" by Joanne Proulx