How To Use Cheapskate In A Sentence
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He was a cheapskate in every other way, but he did know his perks.
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Most men consider a decent razor one of life's little luxuries, and unlike cheapskate me will pay over the odds for a better shave.
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Hospitals were not only cheapskates when it came to investing in computers and Web technologies but also had a knack for wasting the money they did spend.
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But be forewarned: If there's anything worse than being called a cheapskate by a significant other, it's being called a thoughtless cheapskate.
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The cheapskate didn't even pay for the cab.
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'I'm a cheapskate,' Mike grinned as he led his friend into the kitchen.
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You're the kind of customer that waitresses hate, you cheapskate.
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Quarter craps is a lot more fun for a cheapskate like me than is $10-minimum craps.
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What sort of cheapskate outfit would they think we are?
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My dad's such a cheapskate that he's put a lock on the telephone.
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Despite have high paying jobs, they were all cheapskates.
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They just have a redder color and come with their stems attached and you feel superior at the cash register to those cheapskates who're buying those other tomatoes.
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You'll feel like you're on a romantic first date and there's no way you're going to blow this one by exposing yourself as a cheapskate.
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Well, in that scenario, the guy is being a cheapskate by not subscribing and shelling out the cash to be able to make an e-mail response.
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For instance, the word "Hymie," which Canadian former talk show host Dini Petty used on the air to describe cheapskate husbands, derives from a derogatory term for Jews.
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Well, how did your boss like being called a cheapskate?
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But it's a tad worrisome to a father who considers the epithet "cheapskate" to be praise.
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A fellow who "skinned his flint" was looked upon as being a parsimonious, penny-pinching, stingy cheapskate — a veritable skinflint. ramrod A ramrod is a rod of wood or metal for ramming the ball and patch down the barrel of a muzzleloading firearm and setting them against the main powder charge.
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So Sally's father's primary concern is not that her husband has broken his marriage vows and betrayed her but that he's unwilling to pay for it - cheapskate!
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Besides, what Christian wants to be known as a cheapskate?
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The apartment was shabby, a cheapskate dwelling, second-rate and sliding rapidly downhill.
IN REMEMBRANCE OF ROSE
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Sure, there are a few cheapskates out there who won't buy CDs when they can just download the tracks.
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I love mix tapes as much as the next cheapskate, but I like to get them for a fiver from my local market bootlegger.
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While the Trumps and Iacoccas of the world prefer to present themselves in garish books with jackets featuring large color photos of their own faces, Buffett, the legendary midwestern cheapskate with a knack for discovering hidden value in cookware clubs (The Pampered Chef) and encyclopedia publishers (World Book), has reclaimed a form of junk mail for his collected works.
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You leave a small tip and your companion thinks you're a cheapskate; a large one and she thinks you're a flash git.
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Being a cheapskate is no crime but lying to congress is, a big “if” if he did.
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I would say that parents in our position should not be made out to be tightwads and cheapskates.
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Certainly no one enjoys being smeared as a race of cheapskates, especially when that cheapness has been presented over the centuries as a ruthless desire to take a profit at any cost.
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How many cheapskate bosses will demand multi-skilling but not pay for the training?
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They were friends of mine, who already had tickets, but knew friends who were cheapskates and wouldn't buy opening day seats, no matter how much that they wanted to see a show.
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I should not have said that the Most Wonderful Daughter in the Whole World was a 'cheapskate' because she is 'so not'!
Let's be honest...
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Politicians are spend-happy on the campaign trail, but cheapskates in office.
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Howard rode with us in the taxi, but the cheapskate didn't offer to pay any of the fare.
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I had a stickybeak around the LJ archives, discovered that I didn't have to have a paid account to set up a community I'm a cheapskate, aren't I? so I set up the community:
Done!
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Even cheapskates would never suggest that you skip special dinners out, such as those celebrating anniversaries or job promotions.
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The only thing that does stop me from hanging up on such callers is the offer of something free, cheapskate that I am.
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You said that complaining of "cheapskate" boyfriends or husbands is common.
"All the women here are lovely. We spend a lot of time sitting and talking. I'll stick it out a bit longer."
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The cheapskate is a Jakun and known to abuse staff discounted tickets to regularly bring his whole family for holidays during his business trips.
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She shouts after me, and something about the singsong intonation tells me it isn't 'you cheapskate farang' or anything similar.
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The result is that I rarely purchase things for myself, have a reputation with my wife as a cheapskate, and am the only person in the house that can say ‘No’ to my son with any regularity.
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It's a hassle to photocopy a book cover to cover, so most of us don't bother to do it, and those who do are possibly such cheapskates that they wouldn't buy the original to begin with.
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Cheapskate bosses can be fined or even sent to prison.
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Imagine that as the guy with the Will-Work-4-Food sign grovels as the freeway offramp, he's rewarded not with some middle-class cheapskate's Starbucks change, but with a small diamond!
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‘I'm a cheapskate,’ she says unapologetically.
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And our collective indifference may not mean we are a bunch of uncaring cheapskates.
