What's the difference between cheapo and tightwad?

Cheapo


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Master that skill, refuse to be blinded by a cheapo price tag tempting you to buy foolishly, and you are guaranteed to have the last laugh, in the chicest clothes.
  • (2) Thus the first film she did after completing the overblown Star Wars trilogy was the $2.5m Garden State, a scruffy, lovely, cheapo indie that was the directorial debut of Scrubs star Zach Braff.

Tightwad


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) They are sitting on a backlog of planning consents that would allow them to build 300,000 right away if they wanted to, if they could get the necessary funding from tightwad banks – or would-be buyers could raise a mortgage.
  • (2) Describing a mean Tory MP as a "lovable tightwad" who bought his clothes at jumble sales, he recorded that when the MP asked a colleague to guess how much he had paid for his suit, he was told: "I don't know, but I hope the corpse was at least cold."