Ask-less

Not having the money desired by another.

"It was minuscule, the amount we wanted for doing Hamburger Harry's on-line promo," p.r. flack Mindee told her livid boss, "but the chain's point-guy said that they were simply ask-less for now."

"I'll crunch the numbers for you," Felix said in the two minutes he was given with the football giant. "You Venmo us 40 million and we will stamp your name and number on Apple pencils for distribution to every football news jock in the country."
"Numbskull," cautioned the legend smoothly, wondering which of his gatekeepers had let Felix through. "It's not that I'm ask-less, but go elsewhere to peddle your shlock. I'm Peyton Manning."

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