ADJECTIVE
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giving or spending with reluctance
very close (or near) with his money
a penny-pinching miserly old man
our cheeseparing administration
NOUN
- extreme care in spending money; reluctance to spend money unnecessarily
How To Use penny-pinching In A Sentence
- The mighty Dragon sneers at the prudent and penny-pinching.
- Believing that music should be free, man, a groundswell of penny-pinching hippies forced the promoter to provide free concerts as a sidebar to the festival.
- I became tired of his penny-pinching friends.
- As I understand the defence, the real cause of the plaintiffs' poor sales is their incompetence and penny-pinching.
- Children are the most vulnerable to this menace, but their health will not even be considered in this penny-pinching exercise.
- Lives will be lost in the Scottish hills as a direct result of government penny-pinching on mountain rescue services, ministers were warned last night.
- Despite the penny-pinching attitude of canny Scots, a recent report revealed that Scotland is one of the best-value regions for getting married in Britain.
- The only real upside to this penny-pinching is the extra space in the boot.
- She could finally tolerate no more of his coldness and penny-pinching ways.
- a penny-pinching miserly old man
