Pinching [adjective]
Definition of Pinching:
stingy
Synonyms of Pinching:
● Saving
● Sparing
● Near
● Grasping
● Close
● Narrow
● Mean
● Chary
● Cheap
● Chintzy
● Churlish
● Costive
● Covetous
● Frugal
● Greedy
● Ignoble
● Miserly
● Petty
● Selfish
● Sordid
● Thrifty
● Tight
● Grudging
● Niggard
● Scurvy
● Ungiving
Sentence/Example of Pinching:
There was a red patch on each of his old soft cheeks as if somebody had been pinching them.
"I have not heard," said she, pinching her lips, and speaking with a forced composure.
"I'm the one who's to blame for all the carrots," pinching Gyp's cheek.
Pinching your finger in the crack of a door on the hinge side.
Maxwell secured them by pinching his own ear or by squeezing the arm of his neighbor.
These marks were all raised, and done, I suppose, by pinching up the skin.
The boys pet him, and by pinching him have taught him to bite.
He never dreamed of squeezing the plump arm or pinching the smooth cheek.
"So that is the way the wind blows," said her father, pinching her cheek and laughing.
Viola, pinching her sleeve about her wrist, looked up roguishly.