pinching
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pinching |
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Siberian, abstraction, algid, annexation, appropriation, arctic, avaricious, below zero, biting, bitter, bitterly cold, bleak, boosting, boreal, brisk, brumal, cheap,
cheeseparing, close, closefisted, cold, cold as charity, cold as
death, cold as ice, cold as marble, conversion,
conveyance, crisp, cutting, economy, economy of assumption, economy
of means, elegance, embezzlement, filching, fraud, freezing, freezing cold, frigid, frugality, gelid, glacial, graft, hardfisted, hibernal, hiemal, hyperborean, ice-cold, ice-encrusted,
icelike, icy, illiberal,
inclement, keen, law of parsimony,
liberation, lifting, mingy, miserly, narrow, near,
niggardly, nipping, nippy,
numbing, parsimoniousness, parsimony,
penetrating, penny-pinching, piercing, pilferage, pilfering, pinchfisted, pinchpenny, poaching, raw, rigorous, save-all, scrimping, scrounging, severe, sharp, shoplifting, skimping, sleety, slushy, snappy,
snatching, sneak thievery, snitching, stealage, stealing, stingy, stinting, stone-cold, subzero,
supercooled, swindle, swiping,
theft, thievery, thieving, tight, tightfisted, ungenerous, winterbound, winterlike, wintery, wintry
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penny-pinching |
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avarice, avaricious, cheap, cheapness, cheeseparing, close, closefisted, closefistedness, closeness, hardfisted, hardfistedness, hoarding, illiberal, illiberality, miserliness, miserly, near, nearness, niggardly, parsimonious, penurious, pinchfisted, pinching, save-all, stinginess, stingy, tight, tight purse strings, tightfisted, tightfistedness,
tightness, ungenerosity, ungenerous
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Main entries similar to: pinching
abstraction, algid, annexation, appropriation, arctic,
avaricious, biting, bitter, bleak, boreal, brisk, brumal, cheap,
cheeseparing, close, closefisted, cold, conversion, conveyance, crisp, cutting, economy, elegance, embezzlement, fraud, freezing, frigid, frugality, gelid, glacial, graft,
hibernal, hiemal, hyperborean, ice-cold, icy, illiberal, inclement, keen, liberation, miserly, near, nippy, numbing,
penetrating, penny-pinching, piercing, pilfering, poaching, raw, rigorous, robbery,
scrimping, scrounging, severe, sharp, skimping, sleety, slushy, snappy,
stealing, stingy, stinting, stone-cold, subzero, supercooled, swindle, theft, thievery, tight, ungenerous, wintry
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