tightwad

That year, tightwad Brown vetoed the entire budget.

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.”

Dear Carolyn: My friend’s daughter is getting married and the groom’s parents are tightwads.

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.

The results of the survey by CRC Research are consistent with previous polls showing that by and large, Americans are climate tightwads.