cheese-paring

Synonyms

miserly cheapness stingy masochistic parsimonious monkish niggardly ungenerous forehanded mingy cheeseparing penny-pinching acquisitiveness self-disciplined penny-wise

Antonyms

beneficent princely prodigal giving excessive generosity
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Examples

Like a man made after supper of a cheese-paring when a was naked, he was, for all the world, like a forked radish, with a head fantastically carved upon it with a knife. William Shakespeare

Words in the phrase

cheese paring

Close letter words and terms

cheese-filled moment cheese-like cheese-parer cheeseable cheeseball cheeseball moment