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pinchingadjective giving or sharing as little as possibleneighborhood kids who were trick-or-treating knew better than to bother to knock on that pinching couple's door cheap, chintzy, close, closefisted, mean, mingy, miserly, niggard, niggardly, parsimonious, penny-pinching, penurious, pinchpenny, spare, sparing, stingy, stinting, tight, tightfisted, uncharitable, ungenerous careful, chary, conserving, economical, economizing, frugal, saving, scrimping, skimping, thriftyacquisitive, avaricious, avid, coveting, covetous, desirous, grasping, greedy, hoggish, itchy, mercenary, rapacious, selfish, shabby, small, sordidbegrudging, envious, grudging, resentfulinhospitable bounteous, bountiful, charitable, freehanded, generous, liberal, munificent, openhanded, unsparing, unstinting altruistic, selfless, unselfishextravagant, free, handsome, lavish, overgenerous, profusebeneficent, benevolent, hospitable, humanitarian, philanthropic(also philanthropical)compassionate, good-hearted, greathearted, kindly, magnanimous, openheartedthriftless, unthriftydissipating, frittering, prodigal, profligate, spendthrift, splurging, squandering, wasteful, wasting the quality or practice of being overly sparing with moneythis constant pinching is getting ridiculous—we can afford to turn on one or two lights! cheapness, cheeseparing, closeness, miserliness, niggardliness, parsimony, penny-pinching, penuriousness, stinginess, tightfistedness, tightness conserving, economizing, economy, frugality, husbandry, providence, scrimping, skimping, thriftconservation, savinghusbanding, managing bountifulness, bounty, generosity, largesse(also largess), liberality, openhandedness, openheartedness, philanthropy, unselfishnessextravagance, lavishnessdissipation, improvidence, prodigality, squandering, wastefulness to squeeze tightly between two surfaces, edges, or pointsthe zipper on those jeans always pinches me nipping crimping, tweakingclasping, clutching, grasping, gripping, holding, taking dropping, freeing, loosening, loosing, releasing, springing to take (something) without right and with an intent to keeppinched the earrings while the boutique owner was distracted by another customer appropriating, boosting(slang), filching, heisting, hooking, lifting, misappropriating, nicking(British slang), nipping, pilfering, pocketing, purloining, ripping off, snitching, stealing, swiping, thieving burglarizing, knocking over, robbinglooting, pillaging, plundering, sackingcarjacking, hijacking(also highjacking)picking, riflingpoaching, rustling, shopliftingcollaring, grabbing, grasping, nailing, seizing, snatching, takingmooching, spongingabducting, kidnapping(also kidnaping), shanghaiing, spiriting making away with, making off with, running off with, walking off with buying, purchasingbestowing, contributing, donating, giving, handing over, presenting to take or keep under one's control by authority of lawpinched the purse snatcher just two blocks from where he had robbed the old lady apprehending, arresting, busting(slang), collaring, nabbing, nailing, nicking(British slang), picking up, pulling in, restraining, running in, seizing bagging, capturing, catching, getting, grabbing, grappling, hooking, landing, snapping (up), snaring, snatching, trappingcommitting, confining, detaining, holding, immuring, imprisoning, incarcerating, interning, jailing, jugging, locking (up)binding, enchaining, fettering, handcuffing, manacling, shackling, trammeling(or trammelling)rearrestingremanding discharging emancipating, freeing, liberating, loosening, loosing, releasing, springingunbinding, unchaining to avoid unnecessary waste or expenseif we pinch hard for the upcoming year, we can probably afford the vacation at that fancy resort economizing, saving, scrimping, skimping, sparing conserving, husbanding, maintaining, managing, preservingscrapingcutting back, cutting down, retrenchinghoarding, laying up pinching pennies wasting blowing, dissipating, frittering (away), lavishing, misspending, running through, spending, squandering, throwing awaysplurging |