pecunious

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pecunious

(pɪˈkjuːnɪəs)

adj

1. literary having plenty of money; wealthy

2. US miserly; thrifty

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For example, Hans Haacke's celebrated Olgemalde, Hommage a Marcel Broodthaers (Oil Painting, Homage to Marcel Broodthaers), 1982, links a painted portrait of Ronald Reagan's pinched and pecunious countenance not just to a photograph of the 500,000 people who assembled at a 1982 no-nukes rally in New York, hut, importantly, to a blown-up representation of the black-and-white celluloid frame that constituted Eva Cockroft's photographic capture of this crowd.

"This Will Have Been: Art, Love & Politics in the 1980s": MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART, CHICAGO

You sell her to a rich person for a lot of money; you sell him to a lonesome pecunious widow.