pinchpenny

Maggie knew what a pinchpenny the Miller woman was.

You were most royally entertained by Melilot the pinchpenny last night.

MyMama is a pinchpenny," she ended her random speech resentfully.

You know Likinios Avtokrator was a pinchpenny; we saw that when we were in Serrhes.

Moss Lotus, poetry chapbook (Atlanta: Pinchpenny Press, 1983) published under name of Julia Spicher.

MARY ANN: Good riddance to Lord and Lady Pinchpenny, I say.

Edward Zang is extremely funny, in a sort of Leon Errol way, as an all but doddering and mannered Marchese, a pinchpenny and deadbeat who has only his nobility to draw on in his quest for the innkeeper's hand.

At 39, Hopkins is building his own myth, as the ex-con who never got respect as a boxer, as the onetime thief turned self-styled Executioner, and as a pinchpenny who cleans his house and has a worn-out Costco card.

Even Harold Rosenberg emerges as a stud: His "prowess with women was legendary - 'the girls seemed to chase after him,' said an admiring artist - and perhaps second only to his reputation as a pinchpenny and a man who could hold his liquor."

Moderate Democrats say the urgency of the deficit problem - and the strong prospect that the next Congress will be more conservative and pinchpenny - offers the Clintons an opportunity to cast an overhaul of the health care system as a budget issue rather than a new Government social program.

For him the difference between a comfortable and a pinchpenny retirement is a promotion to general officer."

However, Wing suggests that Powick was noted in the early days chiefly for the cheapness of its care: 'The beauty of the setting and the amenities of the farm (510 acres) contrasted with the restrictive and pinchpenny regime.'