cheapskate

Example Sentences

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For the cheapskates, its new $7 happy hour offers a sampling of its dinner menu, including Cajun fried frog legs and a soft shell chili crab.

From Seattle Times

Many customers feel stressed in encounters like these because “you don’t want to look like a cheapskate,” said Andrew Moreo, a hospitality and tourism management professor at Florida International University.

From New York Times

The long-lasting Chinese highways with wide lanes put to shame the German Autobahn, which puts to shame our cheapskate interstate highway system.

From Salon

Thirteen years later, Hendrix instructed the stadium crew to throw gates open and let in hundreds of young cheapskates, including me, from the same bluff.

From Seattle Times

One could interpret it as marking Elon Musk as one of the world’s outstanding cheapskates.

From Los Angeles Times