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  • 71economical — [adj1] conservative with resources; careful avaricious, canny, chary, circumspect, close, closefisted, cost effective, curmudgeonly, efficient, frugal, meager, mean, methodical, miserly, money saving, niggardly*, on the rims*, parsimonious, penny …

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  • 72greedy — [adj] desiring excessively acquisitive, avaricious, avid, carnivorous, close, closefisted*, covetous, craving, desirous, devouring, eager, edacious, esurient, gluttonous, gobbling, gormandizing, grabby, grasping, grudging, gulping, guzzling,… …

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  • 73miserly — [adj] greedy, stingy abject, avaricious, beggarly, cheapskate*, churlish, close, closefisted, covetous, grasping, ignoble, illiberal, mean, parsimonious, penny pinching*, penurious, skinflint*, sordid, tightfisted*, ungenerous; concepts… …

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  • 74tightfisted — [adj] cheap chintzy*, closefisted, economical, frugal, greedy, mean, mingy, miserly, money conscious, parsimonious, penny pinching, pennywise*, penurious, pinchpenny*, saving, scrimping, stingy, thrifty, tight*, tightwad*, ungenerous; concepts… …

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  • 75tightfisted — [tīt′fis΄tid] adj. stingy; closefisted …

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  • 76hardfisted — adjective unwilling to part with money • Syn: ↑closefisted, ↑tightfisted • Similar to: ↑stingy, ↑ungenerous • Derivationally related forms: ↑tightfistedness ( …

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  • 77tightfisted — adjective unwilling to part with money • Syn: ↑closefisted, ↑hardfisted • Similar to: ↑stingy, ↑ungenerous • Derivationally related forms: ↑tightfistedness …

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  • 78closehanded — ˈ ̷ ̷| ̷ ̷ ̷ ̷ adjective archaic : closefisted …

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  • 79narrow-fisted — | ̷ ̷(ˌ) ̷ ̷| ̷ ̷ ̷ ̷ adjective : closefisted * * * /nar oh fis tid/, adj. tight fisted …

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  • 80handfast — I. ˈ ̷ ̷ˌ ̷ ̷ transitive verb Etymology: Middle English handfesten, handfasten, from Old Norse handfesta, from hand , hönd hand + festa to fasten, from fastr fast more at hand, fast archaic : to bind in contract by joining hands; …

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