Price Roget’s Thesaurus §812 N. price, amount, cost, expense, prime cost, charge, figure, demand, damage,
fare,
hire, wages, value, dues, duty,
toll, tax, impost,
cess,
sess,
tallage,
levy, abkari, capitation tax, poll tax,
doomage, likin,
gabel,
gabelle,
gavel,
octroi, custom,
excise,
assessment,
benevolence,
tithe, tenths, exactment,
ransom,
salvage,
tariff,
brokerage,
wharfage,
freightage, bill, shot
V. bear a price, set a price, fix a price,
appraise,
assess,
doom, price, charge, demand, ask, require, exact, run up, distrain, run up a bill, have one's price,
liquidate, amount to, come to, mount up to, stand one in,
fetch, sell for, cost, bring in, yield, afford
Phr. no penny no paternoster, point d'argent point de suisse, no longer pipe no longer dance, no song no supper, if you dance you have to pay the piper, you get what you pay for, there's no such thing as a free lunch, one may have it for, a bon marche
N. parsimony, parcity|,
parsimoniousness,
stinginess,
stint,
illiberality,
tenacity,
avarice,
greed,
miser,
niggard,
churl, screw,
skinflint,
crib,
codger,
muckworm,
scrimp,
lickpenny,
hunks,
curmudgeon,
harpagon,
harpy,
extortioner,
jew,
usurer,
hessian, pinch fist, pinch penny
V. be parsimonious,
grudge,
begrudge,
stint,
pinch,
gripe, screw, dole out, hold back,
withhold,
starve,
famish, live upon nothing, skin a flint, drive a bargain, drive a hard bargain,
cheapen, beat down, stop one hole in a sieve, have an itching palm,
grasp,
grab Adj. parsimonious,
penurious,
stingy,
miserly, mean,
shabby,
peddling,
scrubby, penny wise, near,
niggardly, close, fast handed, close handed, strait handed, close fisted, hard fisted, tight fisted,
tight,
sparing,
chary,
grudging,
griping,
illiberal, ungenerous,
churlish,
hidebound,
sordid,
mercenary,
venal,
covetous,
usurious,
avaricious,
greedy,
extortionate,
rapacious Adv. with a sparing hand
Phr. desunt inopioe multa avaritiae omnia, "hoards after hoards his rising raptures fill", "the unsunn'd heaps of miser's treasures", words relating to the sentiment and moral powers
N. improbity,
dishonesty, dishonor, deviation from rectitude, disgrace,
fraud, lying, bad faith, punic faith, mala fides, punica fides,
infidelity,
faithlessness, judas kiss,
betrayal, breach of promise, breach of trust, breach of faith, prodition|,
disloyalty, treason, high treason,
apostasy,
nonobservance,
shabbiness,
villainy,
villany, baseness,
abjection,
debasement,
turpitude, moral turpitude,
laxity,
trimming,
shuffling,
perfidy,
perfidiousness,
treachery,
double dealing, unfairness,
knavery,
roguery,
rascality, foul play,
jobbing,
jobbery,
graft,
bribery,
venality,
nepotism, corruption, job,
shuffle, fishy transaction,
barratry, sharp practice, heads i win tails you lose, mouth honor
V. be dishonest, play false, break one's word, break one's faith, break one's promise,
jilt,
betray,
forswear,
shuffle, live by one's wits, sail near the wind, disgrace oneself, dishonor oneself, demean oneself,
derogate,
stoop,
grovel,
sneak, lose caste, sell oneself, go over to the enemy, seal one's infamy
Adj. dishonest, dishonorable, unconscientious,
unscrupulous,
fraudulent,
knavish, disgraceful, wicked,
false-hearted,
disingenuous, unfair,
one-sided, double, double- hearted,
double-tongued,
double-faced,
timeserving,
crooked,
tortuous,
insidious,
machiavelian, dark,
slippery,
fishy,
perfidious,
treacherous,
perjured, infamous,
arrant, foul, base,
vile,
ignominious,
blackguard, contemptible, unrespectable,
abject, mean,
shabby, little,
paltry,
dirty,
scurvy,
scabby,
sneaking,
groveling,
scrubby,
rascally,
pettifogging, beneath one,
low-minded,
low-thoughted,
base-minded,
undignified, indign|, unbecoming,
unbeseeming,
unbefitting,
derogatory,
degrading, infra dignitatem, ungentlemanly,
ungentlemanlike, unknightly, unchivalric, unmanly, unhandsome,
recreant, inglorious, corrupt,
venal,
debased,
mongrel, faithless, of bad faith, false, unfaithful,
disloyal, untrustworthy, trustless,
trothless, lost to shame, dead to honor,
barratrous Adv. dishonestly, mala fide, like a thief in the night, by crooked paths
Phr. corruptissima respublica plurimae leges
Int. o tempora, o mores, [Cicero]
N. selfishness,
self-love, self- indulgence,
self-worship,
self-interest,
egotism,
egoism,
amour propre,
&c. (vanity) 880,
nepotism,
worldliness, world wisdom,
illiberality, meanness,
time-pleaser,
time-server, tuft-hunter,
fortune-hunter,
jobber,
worldling,
egotist,
egoist,
monopolist,
nepotist, dog in the manger, charity that begins at home, canis in praesepi, "foes to nobleness," temporizer,
trimmer V. be selfish, please oneself, indulge oneself, coddle oneself, consult one's own wishes, consult one's own pleasure, look after one's own interest, feather one's nest, take care of number one, have an eye to the main chance, know on which side one's bread is buttered, give an inch and take an ell
Adj. selfish,
self-seeking,
self-indulgent,
self-interested, self- centered, wrapped up in self, wrapt up in self, centered in self,
egotistic,
egotistical,
egoistical,
illiberal, mean, ungenerous,
narrow-minded,
mercenary,
venal,
covetous, unspiritual, earthly,
earthly-minded,
mundane, worldly, worldly- minded, worldly-wise,
timeserving, interested, alieni appetens sui profusus
Adv. ungenerously, to gain some private ends, from interested motives
Phr. apres nous le deluge
