Cheap and Greedy

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Cheap adjective - Giving or sharing as little as possible.

Usage example: a cheap coworker who never contributes to the collections taken up in the office

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Greedy and cheap are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Greedy" instead an adjective "Cheap".

Nearby Words: cheapen, cheaply, cheapness

Greedy adjective - Having or marked by an eager and often selfish desire especially for material possessions.

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Cheap and greedy are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Cheap" instead an adjective "Greedy".

Nearby Words: greed, greediness, greedily

DuckTales: Scrooge may be greedy and cheap, but it is shown many times that he does care about his family and friends.

Source: Jerk With A Heart Of Gold / Western Animation
Jerk with a Heart of Gold: Scrooge may be greedy and cheap, but it is shown many times that he does care about his family and friends.

Source: Western Animation / DuckTales
While most incarnations of Scrooge have been greedy and cheap at worst, Ebenezer was a pedophile who paid children to let him urinate on them, and one of the children he did this to was a younger Mickey.

Source: Adaptational Villainy

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