tight-fisted

Folks say I'm tight-fisted—that I'm a squeezing, wrenching, grasping, clutching miser.

I hate to have you pay unjust extortions out of the mere pittance your tight-fisted old father allows you.'

"I am Mr. Smith, and I have heard that I am called 'tight-fisted' in the neighborhood," he replied, with a smile.

Only they would rather have died than have applied to the Lorilleuxs, for they knew they were too tight-fisted.