skinflint

How To Use skinflint In A Sentence

• Stop being such a skinflint - just buy the thing.
• So skinflints and kids can get other people to pay for their phone calls through emotional blackmail.
• But as I palmed the money through the window the meter went to £9.40, turning me instantly into a skinflint.
• It's certainly not because I'm a skinflint, production costs and time invested are irrelevant.
• I'm a skinflint and I don't want to shell out on Dreamweaver.
• A nipcheese in Scottish-English is a miser, a skinflint; someone who only takes small bites at cheese because they are too stingy to buy more. The nip is a two pack breakfast
• I was too scared to stand up to them, or to the diner's skinflint owner, who kept finding creative ways to dip into our inadequate tips.
• Ensconced at First Lutheran Church in Back Bay, the venue provided some questionable Boston hospitality via the city's skinflint approach to parking — a meter maid was already lurking as I fed my quarters; the concert featured multiple announcements of which cars were in the process of being towed. Authentication keys
• If one bends over backwards to avoid such epithets as spend -, slip - or slidethrift, spillgood, or scattergood, one incurs hostile mutters of sparethrift or sparegood, scrapepelf or scrape-good, pinchfist or skinflint (also flay - or fleaflint), pinchgut VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol V No 1
• Sure, Clovis had complained, the chinchy old skinflint would give them that for stove wood; if they did wear themselves out and saw it up nobody could ever split it, he had said. The Dollmaker