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61abstemious — adj 1. habitually abstinent, nonin dulgent, moderate, temperate; teetotal, nondrinking, sober, not intoxicated or drunk, prohibitionary, U.S. dry, blue ribbon; continent, celibate, fasting, dieting; puritanical, puritanlike, austere, self… …
62cheap — adj 1. inexpensive, reasonable, low priced, moderately priced, economical; reduced, slashed, lowered, bargain or sale priced, marked down, discounted, cut rate, wholesale, warehouse priced, priced to move, Inf. budget, Inf. bargain basement. 2.… …
63niggardly — adj 1. stingy, parsimonious, miserly, carking, skinflinty; mean, tight, tight fisted, close fisted; cheap, Sl. chintzy, moneygrubbing, grasping; penurious, Rare. illiberal, cheeseparing; scrimping, penny pinching, grudging, begrudging, ungenerous …
64penurious — adj 1. stingy, parsimonious, miserly, carking, skinflinty; mean, tight, tight fisted, close fisted; cheap, Sl. chintzy, moneygrubbing, grasping; niggardly, Rare. illiberal, cheeseparing; scrimping, penny pinching, grudging, begrudging, ungenerous …
65skimpy — adj 1. scanty, meager, scrimpy, scant, shy; lacking, wanting, deficient; shallow, superficial, insubstantial, depthless; sketchy, incomplete, inadequate, beggarly, insufficient; very little, paltry, poor, piddling, Inf. measly, mere; small,… …
66stingy — adj 1. niggardly, miserly, parsimonious, carking, skinflinty; penurious, mean, tight, tight fisted, close fisted; cheap, Sl. chintzy, moneygrubbing, grasping. Rare. illiberal, cheeseparing; scrimping, penny pinching, grudging, begrudging,… …
67tight — a. 1. Compact, firm, firmly held together. 2. Close, fast, not open, not leaky. 3. Close fitting, not loose. 4. Tense, stretched, taught. 5. Close. 6. Whole, neat. 7. (Colloq.) Fuddle …
68penurious — I adjective chary, cheap, churlish, close, close fisted, close handed, frugal, greedy, grudging, illiberal, impoverished, in distress, in need, in want, indigent, mean, mercenary, miserly, needy, niggard, niggardly, nonpaying, parsimonious,… …
69Fast-handed — Fast hand ed, a. Close handed; close fisted; covetous; avaricious. [Obs.] Bacon. [1913 Webster] …
70Charlotte Stuart, Duchess of Albany — Charlotte Stuart by Hugh Douglas Hamilton, Scottish National Portrait Gallery Charlotte Stuart, styled Duchess of Albany[1] (29 October 1753 – 17 November 1789) was the illegitimate daughter of the Jacobite pretender Prince Charles Edward Stuart… …
