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tight-fisted, mean, mercenary Brit mingy, Dialectal near, Colloq
close: He was so narrow he barely allowed himself the
essentials.
--v. 8 constrict, limit, qualify, reduce, lessen, diminish,
decrease: She narrowed her chances of winning by buying only
one lottery ticket. 9 limit, restrict, focus, confine,
concentrate, narrow down: They have narrowed the search for the
boy to the area near Chester.
--n. 10 narrows. strait(s), channel, passage: The vessel
approached the narrows at dead slow speed.
narrowly adv. 1 barely, (only) just, scarcely, hardly, by a hair's
breadth; by the skin of one's teeth, Colloq by a whisker: The
speeding lorry narrowly missed those children. 2 closely,
carefully, meticulously, scrupulously, searchingly, critically:
She regarded him narrowly before speaking.
narrow-minded
adj. bigoted, prejudiced, illiberal, narrow, biased,
opinionated, one-sided, intolerant, non-objective, conservative,
reactionary, parochial, ultra-conservative, stiff-necked,
conventional, hidebound, fundamentalist, literal-minded,
narrow-spirited, mean-minded, mean-spirited, petty,
pettifogging, small-minded, puritanical, unprogressive,
old-fashioned, old-fogyish or old-fogeyish, strait-laced, Colloq
stuffy, US close-minded, square, screed-bound, red-necked: The
vote reflected a reasonable balance between broad-minded and
narrow-minded factions.
nasty adj. 1 foul, filthy, dirty, unclean, offensive, disgusting,
nauseating, revolting, horrible, loathsome, repugnant,
repellent, vile, odious, obnoxious, objectionable, nauseous,
sickening, vomit-provoking, fetid or foetid, noisome, mephitic,
rank, malodorous, rancid, noxious: The nasty stench of rotting
vegetation assailed our nostrils. 2 unpleasant, disagreeable,
unsavoury, painful, objectionable, annoying, untoward, awkward,
difficult, bad, serious: Lord Petherbridge had some very nasty
experiences in the war. 3 obscene, dirty, pornographic, blue,
smutty, lewd, vulgar, sordid, indecent, licentious, gross,
coarse, crude, rude, ribald, bawdy, risqu‚, off colour,
suggestive, Colloq X-rated, raunchy: The shops are selling some