How To Use Tightwad In A Sentence

  • He portrays himself as a tightwad who is tight on the purse, spends nothing, drops taxes, and holds back on expenditure.
  • So here's to hoping his replacement in 2012 has a little more realistic definition of the word "tightwad. Man of the Middle?
  • I am a notorious tightwad and I will avoid paying for a haircut for as long as possible.
  • ‘It means he's calling you a tightwad,’ Joe supplies helpfully.
  • Stop being a tightwad and go to an internet cafe.
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  • One of the drawbacks of reading some item in the Daily, or the Sunday Times, is that due to the fact I am a founder member of the 'tightwad' clan, and will not pay for access past the 'Paywall' if it were the last source of news on the Planet. A Tangled Web
  • He portrays himself as a tightwad who is tight on the purse, spends nothing, drops taxes, and holds back on expenditure.
  • The tax code attracts tightwads and big spenders alike.
  • When I first asked myself this question, I realized that I wanted others to see me as generous, although I had been quite frugal, even to the point of being called a tightwad, during most of my financial past. Brent Kessel: It's Not About The Money
  • Of course, we can't just dump the blame for the fact we live in filth on tightwad councillors; some responsibility has to be shouldered by the litterbugs who think nothing of dropping their junk where they stand.
  • Contrary to belief, money was not flowing in the Cheshire town, the buyers there must be tightwads, and they didn't half pick up some bargains.
  • I also am bothered by the tightwads who become rich.
  • Being economical and frugal is one thing, being a tightwad to the detriment of the investment we all have in living here is something else all together.
  • After a tension-filled pause, Benny, a notorious miser and tightwad, said, ‘I'm thinking, I'm thinking.’
  • Being economical and frugal is one thing, being a tightwad to the detriment of the investment we all have in living here is something else all together.
  • The rest of the time, we're tightwads who turn away as people die in far greater numbers.
  • Perhaps I was being a tightwad and didn't want to fork out the entrance admission.
  • After getting dumped by the evil tightwad as whined about in the previous post, I went out and took on some retail therapy.
  • Unfortunately for Republicans, that kind of tightwad economics rightly died in the Keynesian revolution over 70 years ago. Ian Fletcher: Why the Budget Is the Wrong Thing to Fight About
  • This list would really separate the tightwads and showmen from the true givers.
  • Do you want to hook up with a tightwad or splurger? A Dozen Ways to Get to Know Your Real Partner
  • He even muses about incorporating the 'tightwad' theme into his business a bit more. Entrepreneur.com: Latest Articles
  • Did anyone ever tell you that you're a tightwad?
  • On today's show we've got Jay Shaff - gay photographer and long term tightwad here to share with us his quic [ Feast of Fun : Gay Talk Show
  • Sullivan, a notorious tightwad, got permission to use the character for free and it became the team's logo, appearing on everything from stationery to stock certificates.
  • Is a tightwad necessarily likely to serve you less food?
  • Perhaps a wise old retired policeman would have spotted something, but like all the dipsos I know, he was a tightwad as well, and never went near the bar.
  • After a tension-filled pause, Benny, a notorious miser and tightwad, said, ‘I'm thinking, I'm thinking.’
  • Fans of the hit TV show (so that's all of us, then) know what a greedy old tightwad Mr. Burns is.
  • Just what is it that makes the stingiest people in Britain pinch the pennies to such extremes that they have won the unenviable moniker of tightwad?
  • Actually, I do realise why - it's because I'm a complete tightwad.
  • On today's show we've got Jay Shaff - gay photographer and long term tightwad here to share with us his quick and easy tips on saving money and surviving the downt [ Feast of Fun : Gay Talk Show
  • I would say that parents in our position should not be made out to be tightwads and cheapskates.

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