tight-wad
Example Sentences
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He didn't want Elsie to think he was a tight-wad, or worse still suspect him of being broke.
From Wild Wings A Romance of Youth by Piper, Margaret Rebecca
I believe you fixed up to catch me, and make me feel like a tight-wad.
From Joyce of the North Woods by Comstock, Harriet T. (Harriet Theresa)
Badger Billy, being notorious even among his fellows as a tight-wad, swallowed hard, but he produced a small roll of bills and extracted the newest twenty he could find.
From Young Wallingford by Chester, George Randolph
He was a tight-wad old gink, he was.
From Thankful's Inheritance by Lincoln, Joseph Crosby
It's the kind of thing that gives knockers a license to put detectives in the same class as blackmailers—and the old Whey-face himself is a tight-wad.
From The Tyranny of Weakness by Stahr, Paul
