tightwad
Example Sentences
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That year, tightwad Brown vetoed the entire budget.
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 23, 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
The Athletics pull off this tightwad act with exceedingly bright management, but it is an exception.
From New York Times • Mar. 1, 2019
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
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