1 an unwillingness to spend money:
Volunteers and locals spoke of their sadness at the penny-pinching.
This penny-pinching has become necessary because his family was rejected for a loan.
His wife was going to stay home and that meant some penny-pinching for the young family.
Both subsections seem to carry meanness and penny-pinching to a totally unreasonable degree.
Again, clause 3 represents a small change, but a mean, penny-pinching and unnecessary one.
Their objective seems to be simply a penny-pinching, cost-cutting sweatshop economy.
These all have a cost, and we should not limit our political ambitions by penny-pinching over what is, after all, a relatively modest budget.
Do we not need to get away from the penny-pinching, monetarist attitude once and for all and give the issue the priority that it deserves?
