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pinchpenny

noun as in miser

noun as in penny pincher

noun as in skinflint

noun as in tightwad

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Example Sentences

Pinchpenny Rod was regifting it to me.

You’ll be pleased to know we have one in the pinchpenny person of J. Paul Getty, who pinches countless billions while refusing to pay a penny of ransom for his kidnapped grandson in “All the Money in the World.”

“You call me Pinchpenny, and I’ll call you...”

“My days of being a pinchpenny might be coming to an end.”

Produced for a pinchpenny $12 million, the movie stars Shailene Woodley and Ansel Elgort as afflicted adolescents who meet at a cancer group-therapy session and fall splendidly in love.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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