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Parsimony
Nouns
parsimony, parcity
parsimoniousness, stinginess etc. adj.
stint
illiberality, tenacity. avarice, greed etc. Existence 7-economy">Economy.1. miser, niggard, churl, screw, skinflint, crib, codger, muckworm, scrimp, lickpenny, hunks, curmudgeon, Harpagon, harpy, extortioner, Jew, usurer
Hessian [U.S.]
pinch fist, pinch penny.
Verbs
be parsimonious etc. adj.
grudge, begrudge, stint, pinch, gripe, screw, dole out, hold back, withhold, starve, famish, live upon nothing, skin a flint. drive a bargain, drive a hard bargain
cheapen, beat down
stop one hole in a sieve
have an itching palm, grasp, grab.
Adjectives
parsimonious, penurious, stingy, miserly, mean, shabby, peddling, scrubby, penny wise, near, niggardly, close
fast handed, close handed, strait handed
close fisted, hard fisted, tight fisted
tight, sparing
chary
grudging, griping etc. v.
illiberal, ungenerous, churlish, hidebound, sordid, mercenary, venal, covetous, usurious, avaricious, greedy, extortionate, rapacious.
Phrases
hoards after hoards his rising raptures hoards after hoards his rising raptures fill" [Goldsmith]
the unsunn'd heaps of miser's treasures" [Milton] .