as in miser
a mean grasping person who is usually stingy with money
you're always such a tightwad when charity comes calling
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Recent Examples of tightwad
Your customers can be tightwads or spendthrifts, and your products may be oriented to one or the other.
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Roger Dooley, Forbes, 3 Mar. 2025
But come Sunday, the tightwad could still walk away with the trophy.
—Jarrett Bell, USA TODAY, 12 Feb. 2022
Valentine’s Day plus being too much of a tightwad to buy a gift.
—Erika W. Smith, refinery29.com, 5 Feb. 2020
So Carew signed with the Angels and the Yankees maintained their imperious and often disdainful view of the Twins as backwater tightwads who didn't sufficiently appreciate the privilege of playing against the Yankees, much less for them.
—Steve Rushin, SI.com, 20 Sep. 2019
Maybe because the tightwad organization has shed $20 million off an already bottom-feeding payroll, to an even thinner $63.5 million.
—Ann Killion, San Francisco Chronicle, 1 Mar. 2018
The details of the tax returns painted Reagan as a tightwad, helping augment his public image as a crusader who would cut government spending.
—Kevin M. Kruse, Esquire, 14 Apr. 2017
Roger Dooley, Forbes, 3 Mar. 2025
But come Sunday, the tightwad could still walk away with the trophy.
—Jarrett Bell, USA TODAY, 12 Feb. 2022
Valentine’s Day plus being too much of a tightwad to buy a gift.
—Erika W. Smith, refinery29.com, 5 Feb. 2020
So Carew signed with the Angels and the Yankees maintained their imperious and often disdainful view of the Twins as backwater tightwads who didn't sufficiently appreciate the privilege of playing against the Yankees, much less for them.
—Steve Rushin, SI.com, 20 Sep. 2019
Maybe because the tightwad organization has shed $20 million off an already bottom-feeding payroll, to an even thinner $63.5 million.
—Ann Killion, San Francisco Chronicle, 1 Mar. 2018
The details of the tax returns painted Reagan as a tightwad, helping augment his public image as a crusader who would cut government spending.
—Kevin M. Kruse, Esquire, 14 Apr. 2017
Recent Examples of Synonyms for tightwad
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Julia Soares, an assistant professor of cognitive science at Mississippi State University, said this tendency aligns with the decades-old social science concept of the cognitive miser.—
Celia Ford,
Vox,
10 Mar. 2025
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This ahead-of-its-time 1988 film stars Bill Murray as Frank Cross, a TV executive and self-seeking miser who receives a wake-up call from the ghosts of Christmas Past (David Johansen), Present (Carol Kane) and Future (Robert Hammond) to help straighten his mean spirit.—
Skyler Caruso,
People.com,
19 Dec. 2024
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“Tightwad.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/tightwad. Accessed 6 May. 2025.
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