(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
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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."