| Main Entry: |
pinching |
| Part of Speech: |
adjective |
| Definition: |
stingy |
Synonyms: |
acquisitive, avaricious, chary, cheap, chintzy, churlish, close, close-fisted, costive, covetous, curmudgeonly, economical, extortionate, frugal, grasping, greedy, grudging, hard-fisted, ignoble, illiberal, ironfisted, mean, miserly, narrow, near, niggard, niggardly, parsimonious, penny-pinching, pennywise, penurious,
petty, pinchpenny,
rapacious,
saving, scrimping, scurvy,
selfish, skimping,
sordid, sparing,
thrifty, tight*, tightfisted, uncharitable, ungenerous, ungiving
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* = informal/non-formal usage
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