Crossword-Solution: TIGHTWAD
We have 20 clues for the answer “TIGHTWAD”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Not a big spender | 1 answer |
| Jack Benny's impersonation. | 1 answer |
| Careful watcher of expenditures: Slang. | 1 answer |
| a miserly person | 2 answers |
| SKIMPY person | 3 answers |
| piker | 6 answers |
| Scrooge, for one | 6 answers |
| Penny pincher | 7 answers |
| stingy person | 8 answers |
| scrimp | 10 answers |
| Niggard | 11 answers |
| Cheapskate | 11 answers |
| Hoarder | 11 answers |
| Scrooge | 13 answers |
| Skinflint | 13 answers |
| miser | 14 answers |
| Close one? | 14 answers |
| miserly person | 15 answers |
| Niggardly | 18 answers |
| greedy person | 55 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
RAEET
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with TIGHTWAD (5)
With the sign “Change of bill every evening.” Pictures every evening! There were movies in Scandia Crossing, but only once every two weeks, and it took the Sorensons an hour to drive in--papa was such a tightwad he wouldn't get a Ford.
Tightwad, the prince of misers! He thought he'd add a couple of ten-dollar bills to his roll, so he encouraged his skipper to hire a lot of interned Germans to work his ships in neutral trade! He was penny-wise and pound-foolish, so he cut out the wireless to save a miserable hundred and forty dollars a month.
Then there'd been tales told by the butcher, the plumber, and half a dozen others, all goin' to show she was a lady tightwad, or worse.
And she can leave the whole kit and caboodle to a cat home in her will if she wants to, which will probably make her tightwad brother spin in his grave.
You're too tightwad to hire a taxi, even to try to scare me and make it unpleasant for me." Una stopped packing, stood listening.
Quotes with TIGHTWAD (2)
John D. Rockefeller apparently became more of a tightwad the richer he got. I don't know if it is true, but one story I read was about one of his sons having to wear his older sister's clothes in order to save money.
Although I was paid a salary in Ann Arbor, my wife and children and I drank powdered milk at six cents a quart instead of the stuff that came in bottles. I was a tightwad.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: Boston Globe, Newsday, NYT, Universal.
Used 12 times in crossword archives (1952–2016).