cheeseparing

1 Biden’s budget would throw many of them a life preserver, but that won’t happen unless Democrats hammer Republicans with the consequences of their cheeseparing ways by reminding all voters what’s at stake.

2 There are numerous manifestations of this cheeseparing habit.

3 Employers, however, have become addicted to cheeseparing wages for their lowest-paid workers, so any such increase provokes sticker shock.

4 Despite the benefits in this measure, U.S. pandemic relief remains among the most skinflint, cheeseparing packages in the developed world.

5 The federal government said it needed to audit the request, but its cheeseparing was unusual, to say the least.

6 Age discrimination and the experienced and knowledgeable worker forced into retirement by a cheeseparing corporation aren't myths.

7 The higher-education industry faces a stark choice: either adapt to a rapidly changing world or face a future of cheeseparing.

8 Because the former does not include housing costs, this single piece of cheeseparing saves £6bn a year by the end of the parliament.

9 Speaking in the Times after the release of the report, Sir Daniel Stevenson of Glasgow attacked the "cheeseparing" planned for the vital field of education.

10 She didn't believe in pinching and cheeseparing, and didn't want the thing rounded off in any of those circular frames.

11 Poor things, they need a father: and I am tired of this miserable, scraping, cheeseparing life that you are so fond of.

12 And the dinner ordered will enable Madame to show what she can do, a chance she rarely gets from cheeseparing customers, like Brian and me, and others of our ilk.

13 The old bourgeoisie still retained the careful habits of the days of Louis Philippe, and made fortunes by cheeseparing.

14 It would be surprising if they were content with such a cheeseparing allowance.

15 And she, good woman, was unused to cheeseparing.

16 Ebenezer Scrooge is portrayed as a taskmaster so dedicated to cheeseparing that he would prefer that his employees freeze to death rather than splurge on heat.

17 The reason is not cheeseparing but the pay without the basis of feeling is a waste.

不是因为吝啬，而是没有感情基础的付出只是浪费。

1 吝啬的

mean small close cheap tight stingy grasping miserly illiberal parsimonious churlish chary penurious niggardly niggard mingy tightfisted closefisted hardfisted scrimpy narrow-fisted little near narrow managing skinny shabby scant paltry scaly sordid skimpy scanty screwy grudging penny-pinching ungenerous unhandsome costive pinchpenny close-fisted gripple iron fisted careful miserable scotch scrimp nippy beggarly ironfisted chinchy narrowfisted Scottish chintzy tight-fisted

2 无价值的东西

doit

3 吝啬

mean small close cheap tight stingy grasping miserly illiberal parsimonious churlish chary penurious niggardly niggard mingy tightfisted closefisted hardfisted scrimpy nearly parsimony penury screw pinch skimp scant penny-pinching chintzy tight-fisted meanly meanness careful ungenerous close-fisted narrow-fisted little near narrow managing skinny shabby paltry scaly sordid skimpy scanty screwy grudging unhandsome costive pinchpenny gripple skimpingly stingily charily pikerism closeness nearness smallness stinginess littleness miserliness illiberality chariness scrimp iron fisted miserable scotch nippy beggarly ironfisted chinchy hunks squeeze the eagle narrowfisted Scottish begrudgingly scantily churlishly parsimoniously churlishness penny-pinch

4 不值钱的东西

rap muck folderol tat gubbins falderal halfpennyworth

5 私房钱

sock paring

6 小气的

mean small skimpy parsimonious ungenerous niggardly mingy close narrow scotch miserly small-minded penny-pinching chintzy pimping niggard unhandsome close-fisted tight careful miserable contracted nigh scaly stingy nippy illiberal costive carking closefisted hardfisted ironfisted little Scottish shabby sordid picayune tightfisted chinchy

7 悭吝

shoddy

8 小气

mean small skimpy parsimonious ungenerous niggardly mingy parsimony penury screw close cheap tight careful stingy miserly small-minded penny-pinching chintzy tight-fisted close-fisted narrow scotch pimping niggard unhandsome skimpingly meanly stingily pikerism meanness smallness miserable contracted nigh scaly nippy illiberal costive carking closefisted hardfisted ironfisted little Scottish shabby sordid picayune tightfisted chinchy begrudgingly pettily unhandsomely stinginess penny-pinch

9 私财

privy purse