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Definition of Tightwads
1. tightwad [n] - See also: tightwad
Lexicographical Neighbors of Tightwads
Literary usage of Tightwads
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Orations, Addresses and Speeches of Chauncey M. Depew by Chauncey Mitchell Depew (1910)
"But Sheldon cornered the tightwads and sang to them "Salvation is free," and the
purse-strings were untied. With the chairman and treasurer, ..."
2. When Kansas was Young by Thomas Allen McNeal (1922)
"He seemed to exercise a sort of hypnotic influence on men who were natural
tightwads, and under the spell of his vigorous appeal they would obligate ..."
3. When Kansas was Young by Thomas Allen McNeal (1922)
"He seemed to exercise a sort of hypnotic influence on men who were natural
tightwads, and under the spell of his vigorous appeal they would obligate ..."
4. The University of Hard Knocks: The School that Completes Our Education by Ralph Albert Parlette (1917)
"Bankers were such "tightwads." They had no imagination! Nothing interested me
that did not offer fifty ..."
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