as in miser
a mean grasping person who is usually stingy with money
we've ended up treating that penny-pincher to dinner three times and she's never once offered to pay
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Equally vital, aging misers addicted to their vocations need palliatives and surrogates for the drug of importance.
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Francesca Fiorentini, a comedian and podcaster, compared Steyer to Charles Dickens’ fictional miser Ebenezer Scrooge.
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“Penny-pincher.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/penny-pincher. Accessed 5 Jul. 2026.
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