cheapskate

Example Sentences

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“It’s not a cheapskate practice. It’s a flavor-imbuing practice and a way of conserving what you have. Use it instead of discarding it,” she said from her home in New York’s Hudson Valley.

From Seattle Times

He is such a cheapskate that he won’t even give his own daughter her family name.

From Washington Times

The Mariners might not be the Dodgers or the Yankees — but they aren’t cheapskates.

From Seattle Times

And for what it’s worth, you don’t sound like a “cheapskate” at all.

From Washington Post

His voice was just one in a chorus of travel executives and tourism officials recently taking digs at the cheapskates among their customers.

From Washington Post