cheese-paring 
adjective
Extremely careful or mean with money: cheese-paring methods necessitated by desperate shortages...
- I can't honestly think of any other reason for the latest mean-spirited, cheese-paring cut revealed by the Irish Examiner today.
- It is symptomatic of an unacceptable cheese-paring attitude to contemplate immediate reduction in the judicial resource in the Court of Appeal.
- In my best and politest southern British accent, I profusely apologised and prostrated myself at the mercy of these cheeseparing economists.
noun [mass noun]
Meanness.
- semester
- semesterly
- Semey
- semi
- semi-
- semi-acoustic
- semi-annual
- semi-annually
- semiaquatic
- semi-autobiographical
- semi-automatic
- semi-autonomous
- semi-basement
- semibold
- semibreve
- semicircle
- semicircular
- semicircular canals
- semicivilized
- semi-classical
- semicolon
- semiconducting
- semiconductor
- semi-conscious
- semi-conservative