Sentence examples for tightwad. from inspiring English sources

Are you more of a spendthrift or tightwad?" Spendthrifts experience little pain spending money and often regret their financial recklessness, while tightwads feel pain when they spend too much money, and might experience "non-buyer's remorse".

Blu-ray, Arrow Aspirational Mildred is dragged down by messy, tightwad George.

Mr. Macdonald's character, Willard Fillmore, is an oppressed servant of Virginia Crock (Elaine Stritch), a tyrannical baking tycoon and flinty tightwad whose monumental nastiness gives new dimensions to the term "queen of mean".

But it makes a tightwad like Gulliver thoroughly depressed.

Before we go proclaiming this the age of the American tightwad, a little perspective is in order.

(A while back, on the "Tonight Show, Deann regaled Jay Leno with a shaggy-dog story about a hundred-and-twenty-five-dollar suit from J.C. Penney that he couldn't bring himself to get rid of because he's such a tightwad).

In this regard, European glossies are practically tightwads.

I would theorise that it is the tightwads that are affected more by the medium than the spendthrifts".

These people readily assumed the hard-bitten, right-wing opinions of the local ranchers, who, unlike them, had to live with long-term disappointment, owing to ever-declining cattle prices — even rich Americans are tightwads when it comes to meat.

For all the uncertainty about the current state of the economy, everyone is sure of one thing: this recession has permanently remade American consumers, turning them from spendthrifts into tightwads.

What's more, the notion that the Depression turned Americans into tightwads is largely a myth.