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Stinginess See also Greed, Miserliness. Stoicism (See LONGSUFFERING.) Benny, Jack (1894–1974) the king of penny pinchers. [Radio: “The Jack Benny Program” in Buxton, 122–123; TV: Terrace, 402] Philip’s penny-pinching, smugly religious uncle. [Br. Lit.: Magill I, 670–672] parsimonious and distrustful man hoards gold treasure. [Rom. Lit.: The Pot of Gold] inherits, marries, and hoards money. [Br. Lit.: Vanity Fair] begrudged every penny she spent. [Am. Lit.: Mc Teague] How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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"I don't believe a man is in pocket by stinginess on his land," said Sir James. Peter was said to be; and discharged servant girls told fearsome tales of her temper and stinginess, and her family of pert, quarrelsome children. The Musketeer could not forget the evil reports which then prevailed, and which indeed have survived them, of the procurators of the period--meanness, stinginess, fasts; but as, after all, excepting some few acts of economy which Porthos had always found very unseasonable, the procurator's wife had been tolerably liberal--that is, be it understood, for a procurator's wife--he hoped to see a household of a highly comfortable kind. |
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