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penurious collapse

selfish collapse: concerned chiefly or only with yourself and your advantage to the exclusion of others; "Selfish men were...trying to make capital for themselves out of the sacred cause of civil rights"- Maria Weston Chapman

avaricious collapse: immoderately desirous of acquiring e.g. wealth; "they are avaricious and will do anything for money"; "casting covetous eyes on his neighbor's fields"; "a grasping old miser"; "grasping commercialism"; "greedy for money and power"; "grew richer and greedier"; "prehensile employers stingy with raises for their employees"

economical collapse: avoiding waste; "an economical meal"; "an economical shopper"; "a frugal farmer"; "a frugal lunch"; "a sparing father and a spending son"; "sparing in their use of heat and light"; "stinting in bestowing gifts"; "thrifty because they remember the great Depression"; "`scotch' is used only informally"

thrifty collapse: careful and diligent in the use of resources

all thumbs collapse

ungainly collapse

bumbling collapse: lacking physical movement skills, especially with the hands; "a bumbling mechanic"; "a bungling performance"; "ham-handed governmental interference"; "could scarcely empty a scuttle of ashes, so handless was the poor creature"- Mary H. Vorse

heavy handed collapse

fumbling collapse

hulking collapse: of great size and bulk; "a hulking figure of a man"; "three hulking battleships"

greedy collapse: wanting to eat or drink more than one can reasonably consume; "don't be greedy with the cookies"

heavy hand collapse

maladroit collapse: not adroit; "a maladroit movement of his hand caused the car to swerve"; "a maladroit translation"; "maladroit propaganda"

blunderheaded collapse

cumbersome collapse: difficult to handle or use especially because of size or weight; "a cumbersome piece of machinery"; "cumbrous protective clothing"

miserly collapse

unrelaxed collapse: nor relaxed; "his life was drawing to a close in baffled zeal and unrelaxed strain"- U.B.Phillips

oafish collapse

left handed collapse

hole in the wall collapse

gawky collapse: lacking grace in movement or posture; "a gawky lad with long ungainly legs"; "clumsy fingers"; "what an ungainly creature a giraffe is"; "heaved his unwieldy figure out of his chair"

unwieldy collapse: difficult to work or manipulate; "unwieldy rules and regulations"; difficult to use or handle or manage because of size or weight or shape; "we set about towing the unwieldy structure into the shelter"; "almost dropped the unwieldy parcel"

gauche collapse: lacking social polish; "too gauche to leave the room when the conversation became intimate"; "their excellent manners always made me feel gauche"

ungraceful collapse

bungling collapse: showing lack of skill or aptitude; "a bungling workman"; "did a clumsy job"; "his fumbling attempt to put up a shelf"

sparing collapse

penny pinching collapse

iron hand collapse

grasping collapse: the act of gripping something firmly with the hands; understanding with difficulty; "the lecture was beyond his most strenuous graspings"

graceless collapse: lacking grace; clumsy; "a graceless production of the play"; "his stature low...his bearing ungraceful"- Sir Walter Scott; lacking graciousness; "a totally graceless hostess"

loutish collapse

cheap collapse: relatively low in price or charging low prices; "it would have been cheap at twice the price"; "inexpensive family restaurants"; embarrassingly stingy

unhandy collapse

playhouse collapse: plaything consisting of a small model of a house that children can play inside of

boorish collapse: ill-mannered and coarse and contemptible in behavior or appearance; "was boorish and insensitive"; "the loutish manners of a bully"; "her stupid oafish husband"; "aristocratic contempt for the swinish multitude"

clumsy collapse

frugal collapse

clench collapse: squeeze together tightly; "clench one's jaw"; hold in a tight grasp; "clench a steering wheel"

inelegant collapse: lacking in refinement or grace or good taste

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