rácano1

rácano1
1 = stingy [stingier -comp., stingies -sup.], tight-fisted, miser, scrooge, skinflint, penny-pinching, tightwad.
Ex. All subjects completed a four-page questionnaire in which they rated Americans on six bipolar adjective dimensions: friendly/unfriendly, polite/impolite, industrious/lazy, religious/anti-religious, generous/stingy, and patriotic/not patriotic.
Ex. The money for modernizing Indian towns will have to come out of the pockets of leading merchants, men stereotyped as tight-fisted scrooges.
Ex. If one were to think of an analogue outside the library situation, one would conjure up the image of a miser cackling with delight as he counts and recounts his beloved coins.
Ex. The money for modernizing Indian towns will have to come out of the pockets of leading merchants, men stereotyped as tight-fisted scrooges.
Ex. He is been described as a penny-pinching skinflint tightwad who would sooner die than part with a dollar.
Ex. He is been described as a penny-pinching skinflint tightwad who would sooner die than part with a dollar.
Ex. He is been described as a penny-pinching skinflint tightwad who would sooner die than part with a dollar.

Spanish-English dictionary. 2013.

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