skinflint

How To Use skinflint In A Sentence

• The skinflint and the loan shark are seen as sources of sawbuck salvation and sanctification.
• He is at his best when relieving a skinflint widow of her wealth, sorting out a king's love life or abandoning a band of raggle-taggle Gypsies to become an itinerant actor.
• He didn't seem to be too bothered by his 'skinflint' reputation. Grim laughs: A question on humor and crime fiction
• And only two skinflints, or gentlemen of an extremely strong constitution, have so far refused to cough up.
• A $100-million subway was planned in 1912, but city skinflints said they ‘lacked the necessary authorization.’
• Scots are dispelling their stereotype of being skinflints who hoard their money and live austere lives.
• Eilert, though, is known as a skinflint, and that sells in times like these. KansasCity.com: Front Page
• Now remember, this is in skinflint New Hampshire, where a request for money for a new light bulb can cause a knockdown, drag-out debate.
• But you know you have now made Bubba's "skinflint" list for having even made a complaint about it. Mexican Tourist Tax Up Date
• ‘They have a reputation for being skinflints with no respect for decent pay and conditions,’ he said.