skinflint

Example Sentences

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Despite the benefits in this measure, U.S. pandemic relief remains among the most skinflint, cheeseparing packages in the developed world.

From Los Angeles Times

I’m saying it should be illegal to tell consumers that they’re the problem when the problem is actually a skinflint company.

From Los Angeles Times

A PR man flirts with a newswoman and his client’s daughter while changing a skinflint tycoon’s image.

From Los Angeles Times

So I guess it stands to reason that in a state so hellbent on suicide, its citizens would seriously consider voting for a merciless, skinflint presidential bootlicker like Matt Rosendale.

From New York Times

Offended, he published Sir Vidia's Shadow, a book depicting his former friend as "a grouch, a skinflint, tantrum-prone, with race on the brain".

From BBC