PENNY-PINCHING


Meaning of PENNY-PINCHING in English

adjective

EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

a penny-pinching husband

His grandparents were humourless and penny-pinching .

She could finally tolerate no more of his coldness and penny-pinching ways.

Unfortunately we have a penny-pinching local government that spends as little as possible on parks and sports facilities.

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

And why be so penny-pinching in the matter of service, leaving poor Agnes and Adam Diggory overburdened with their load?

We are frail, penny-pinching , well-bundled and preoccupied with our small concerns.

Longman DOCE5 Extras English vocabulary.      Дополнительный английский словарь Longman DOCE5.