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
How To Use cheeseparing In A Sentence
- It is mostly our own carelessness, ignorance, gullibility and cheeseparing that allows criminals, hooligans and others to run riot. Times, Sunday Times
- Forget the punitive mean-spirited class biassed cheeseparing. The nudge is no policy fudge | Francis Maude
- It must go beyond trimming, cheeseparing and 'efficiency' savings. Times, Sunday Times
- In my best and politest southern British accent, I profusely apologised and prostrated myself at the mercy of these cheeseparing economists.
- With the equipment available today it is only senseless cheeseparing and lack of determination that causes these unacceptable delays. Times, Sunday Times
- our cheeseparing administration