| Mean |
| Cheap |
| Tight |
| Stingy |
| Close ... |
| Penurious |
| Avaricious |
| Scroogelike |
| Closefisted |
| Parsimonious |
| Penny-pinching |
| Like Silas Marner |
| Like Scrooge McDuck |
| Far from philanthropic |
| Very stingy with money |
| Like Jack Benny, famously |
| Like Scrooge or Silas Marner |
| Extremely ungenerous, like Scrooge |
| Wanting as much change as possible? |