stingy

I only wish people knew _that_: then they wouldn’t be so stingy about it, you know—”

At the end of each ten weeks with the extra capital thus accumulated, he purchased one gentleman’s evening from the bargain counter of stingy old Father Time.

“I will say it for the child,” said Marilla when Anne had gone to her gable, “she isn’t stingy.

I thought I was right in believing that Cavalcanti to be a stingy fellow.