tight-fisted

All of this was unsurprising: the terrifically wealthy singer is both notoriously prickly and embarrassingly tight-fisted.

Oh, but he was a tight-fisted hand at the grindstone, Scrooge!

This Cobb man is a tight-fisted old bachelor, they say, but his milk of human kindness may not be all skimmed.

If he was tight-fisted wanst, he was as close now as calcimine on a rough-finished wall.

Every angle of his was a right angle, even if he did grow a bit tight-fisted sometimes for his family's sake.

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