How To Use Penny-pinch In A Sentence
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The mighty Dragon sneers at the prudent and penny-pinching.
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At companies where the downturn has not radically reduced sales, penny-pinching can help.
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Government penny-pinching is blamed for the decline in food standards.
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And he rounded things off with a joke regarding the Scot's notoriety for stinginess and penny-pinching.
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It seems mean and penny-pinching to me to have only one New Year in each annual cycle.
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You know that modish new technology is being used as a cloak to disguise bad manners, laziness and penny-pinching.
Times, Sunday Times
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You know that modish new technology is being used as a cloak to disguise bad manners, laziness and penny-pinching.
Times, Sunday Times
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Owners of 43 homes - 75 per cent of the beds available - say they are being pushed to the brink of bankruptcy by a penny-pinching council that will not pay a fair price.
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But others point to parsimony, quoting examples of penny-pinching and bare-bones operations.
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She estimates that her company's penny-pinching adds about $100,000 a year to its bottom line.
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And who is to blame for the penny-pinching cut in garbage collections?
The Sun
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He is nothing but a cheap penny-pincher who has gone out of his way to alienate himself from Chicago fans.
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Traditionally, backpackers haven't had two baht to rub together, and joining their number has meant submitting yourself to an unremitting grind of penny-pinching international poverty.
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Elizabeth, long cast in a golden glow by historians, appears ‘vain, irresolute, avaricious and penny-pinching,’ and driven by sexual jealousy.
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Plastic milk crates often serve as flexible storage units for penny-pinching college students.
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If people are penny-pinching or petty-minded this week, naturally you won't hold back on letting them know it.
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But senior councillors have been on a penny-pinching exercise since the budget problems were first announced.
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Local residents have accused the council of penny-pinching.
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Running one would only be a waste of taxpayers' money, which I'm sure our penny-pinching scheme opposers would find horrific!
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This business will have to be looked at in a way to keep the cost out in front and at the same time not be seen as penny-pinching.
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The demise of such a useful service is short-sighted and penny-pinching and will prove to be a false economy.
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Now she is launching a one-woman drive to make other people aware of what she regards as an underhand and penny-pinching rule.
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Everyone likes a bargain, but the people in this funny documentary really love to about penny-pinching save money.
The Sun
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Military privatization, like military penny-pinching, is part of a pattern.
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This is a navy kept short of ships by successive penny-pinching governments.
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A fellow who "skinned his flint" was looked upon as being a parsimonious, penny-pinching, stingy cheapskate — a veritable skinflint. ramrod A ramrod is a rod of wood or metal for ramming the ball and patch down the barrel of a muzzleloading firearm and setting them against the main powder charge.
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But now it transpires that our soldiers truly are being shot by both sides: the patronising ninnies who would prevent them from going to war at all, and the soulless penny-pinchers who think that soldiers matter only when they're fighting.
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All that penny-pinching means a lasting headache for the airlines.
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We have no idea why the body should indulge in this metabolic penny-pinching.
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More disturbing is your penny-pinching attitude towards tissues.
Times, Sunday Times
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This is because of a reluctance to get involved in the very penny-pinching that framers of tax law believe dominates our every waking thought and action.
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At first sight a plushy one: wall to wall plum coloured carpet, but of penny-pinching quality, two fat looking easy chairs with cheap foam seats, a pair of shoulder high metal filing cabinets and a modern afrormosia desk.
Rat Race
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The only real upside to this penny-pinching is the extra space in the boot.
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Everyone likes a bargain, but the people in this funny documentary really love to about penny-pinching save money.
The Sun
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The inflation in the system over the last forty years has jacked costs for specialists astronomically while leaving doctors and nurses behind to deal with the penny-pinchers at the insurance companies.
Matthew Yglesias » Controlling Costs Through Making the Price Lower
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She could finally tolerate no more of his coldness and penny-pinching ways.
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Describing his penny-pinching proclivities, one of his aides said: ‘He'll argue the price of anything down to the last penny.’
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You know that modish new technology is being used as a cloak to disguise bad manners, laziness and penny-pinching.
Times, Sunday Times
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The publication, they maintain, is not just aimed at penny-pinching harpies but at any woman who does not consider it normal to spend €800 on a pair of shoes.
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If he does not dish out the extra money he will be seen to be heartless and penny-pinching.
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It was a little touch of penny-pinching that showed the house had been built for really prosperous people.
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But, as usual, the penny-pinching hunters will not let other people lay their hands on their treasure.
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They no longer believe in the compulsory quality of those rights, and are in the process of limiting those rights through legislation and penny-pinching practices.
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a penny-pinching miserly old man
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But the reality of most footballers' lives is job uncertainty and penny-pinching to ensure there is enough money put aside for that rainy day.
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The only real upside to this penny-pinching is the extra space in the boot.
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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.
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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.
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Children are the most vulnerable to this menace, but their health will not even be considered in this penny-pinching exercise.
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As I understand the defence, the real cause of the plaintiffs' poor sales is their incompetence and penny-pinching.
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I became tired of his penny-pinching friends.
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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.
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And not just because of the penny-pinching roof mechanism and the braking system.
Times, Sunday Times
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No, I'm not talking about the thrift kind of penny-pinching, I'm talking about lifting an extra cent or two from every overseas transaction involving a credit-card.
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It would also provide billions of pounds for our penny-pinching Chancellor.
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You know that modish new technology is being used as a cloak to disguise bad manners, laziness and penny-pinching.
Times, Sunday Times
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It's a sign that biodegradable plastics appeal to both the eco-conscious and penny-pinchers.
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They are also completely missing the point with their penny-pinching and nit-picking and succeed only in making themselves appear ridiculous.
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You know that modish new technology is being used as a cloak to disguise bad manners, laziness and penny-pinching.
Times, Sunday Times
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Mr. Schultz has said that he sees "segmentation" -- carving out new segments of the business that appeal to different clientele -- as a way of combating the sales slowdown and appealing to both affluent and penny-pinching customers.
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Germany's stunning new World Cup stadiums will put Britain's penny-pinching to shame.
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But Vegas is suffering - visitor numbers have fallen as penny-pinching gamblers stay away.
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Their penny-pinching might have been good for the taxpayer, bad for me.
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I got a few anticipatory glances from the penny-pinching woman who couldn't wait to get her hands on my property.
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You know that modish new technology is being used as a cloak to disguise bad manners, laziness and penny-pinching.
Times, Sunday Times
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So come on you penny-pinching bureaucrats, put yourselves in their shoes and re-think your selfish decisions.
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I would suggest that our penny-pinching council visit the war graves in France and Belgium and then decide where priorities lie.
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Their only hope is that they can raise enough opinion of their necessity to sway the penny-pinching trust.
