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.
- And he rounded things off with a joke regarding the Scot's notoriety for stinginess and penny-pinching.
- At companies where the downturn has not radically reduced sales, penny-pinching can help.
- It seems mean and penny-pinching to me to have only one New Year in each annual cycle.
- You know that modish new technology is being used as a cloak to disguise bad manners, laziness and penny-pinching. Times, Sunday Times
- You know that modish new technology is being used as a cloak to disguise bad manners, laziness and penny-pinching. Times, Sunday Times
- 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.
- But others point to parsimony, quoting examples of penny-pinching and bare-bones operations.
- She estimates that her company's penny-pinching adds about $100,000 a year to its bottom line.
- And who is to blame for the penny-pinching cut in garbage collections? The Sun
