How To Use Skinflint In A Sentence
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The skinflint and the loan shark are seen as sources of sawbuck salvation and sanctification.
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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.
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He didn't seem to be too bothered by his 'skinflint' reputation.
Grim laughs: A question on humor and crime fiction
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And only two skinflints, or gentlemen of an extremely strong constitution, have so far refused to cough up.
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A $100-million subway was planned in 1912, but city skinflints said they ‘lacked the necessary authorization.’
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Scots are dispelling their stereotype of being skinflints who hoard their money and live austere lives.
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Eilert, though, is known as a skinflint, and that sells in times like these.
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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.
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But you know you have now made Bubba's "skinflint" list for having even made a complaint about it.
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‘They have a reputation for being skinflints with no respect for decent pay and conditions,’ he said.
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Although he's looking to sell it again, Lieberman remains a skinflint.
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Stephen Taaffe's penetrating look at the Army's "one indispensable man," by contrast, skirts the chief of staff's more conspicuous duties, such as coaxing funds out of a skinflint Congress, locking horns with Winston Churchill over grand strategy and training millions of civilians to wage war.
Casting the Plan For Victory
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Skinflint walkers can walk on by the gatehouse and follow the deep ditch that runs outside the high outer curtain of 14 th-century walls.
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Benny, rather than turning over his wallet he nurtured a reputation as a notorious skinflint crosses his arms, furrows his brow, taps his lips, and stares into space.
David Burwell: Our Global Choice: Asserting U.S. Leadership on Climate and Energy
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Not that I am a skinflint or unromantic, but it has been refreshing to view the whole event from a neutral standpoint.
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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.
VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol XV No 1
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Ages 5+ The never-ending deluge of grubby hankies, horrid socks and grimy nightshirts imposed on the seven washerwomen by their skinflint employer pushes them to go on strike.
Recommended reads: ages 5–7
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Their skinflint ways caused R. no small degree of humiliation during her growing years.
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Sure, Clovis had complained, the chinchy old skinflint would give them that for stove wood; if they did wear themselves out and saw it up nobody could ever split it, he had said.
The Dollmaker
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So skinflints and kids can get other people to pay for their phone calls through emotional blackmail.
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But as I palmed the money through the window the meter went to £9.40, turning me instantly into a skinflint.
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It's certainly not because I'm a skinflint, production costs and time invested are irrelevant.
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I'm a skinflint and I don't want to shell out on Dreamweaver.
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A nipcheese in Scottish-English is a miser, a skinflint; someone who only takes small bites at cheese because they are too stingy to buy more.
The nip is a two pack breakfast
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I was too scared to stand up to them, or to the diner's skinflint owner, who kept finding creative ways to dip into our inadequate tips.
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Ensconced at First Lutheran Church in Back Bay, the venue provided some questionable Boston hospitality via the city's skinflint approach to parking — a meter maid was already lurking as I fed my quarters; the concert featured multiple announcements of which cars were in the process of being towed.
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If one bends over backwards to avoid such epithets as spend -, slip - or slidethrift, spillgood, or scattergood, one incurs hostile mutters of sparethrift or sparegood, scrapepelf or scrape-good, pinchfist or skinflint (also flay - or fleaflint), pinchgut
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Stop being such a skinflint - just buy the thing.
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In other words, give me my gold, you copper-pinching skinflint, or find your own damned specimens from now on.
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The New York Times noted his reputation as ‘the industry's leading skinflint.’
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Notorious skinflint Scrooge makes an appearance at the Wyvern Theatre on Friday in a bid to raise thousands of pounds for charity.
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[40] From κόπτω to cut, and ματτύα any delicate food; meant as equivalent to our cheeseparer, or skinflint.
The Roman History of Ammianus Marcellinus During the Reigns of the Emperors Constantius, Julian, Jovianus, Valentinian, and Valens
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'skinflint' husband after 12 largely unhappy years of marriage, that he hit her head with a hammer at least seven times.
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Decide that twenty dollars for five hours of entertainment is reasonable value and declare that skinflints are humbugs.
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_kyminopristes_ ( "skinflint"), a cumin-seller, as it were, because he makes a great fuss about things of little value.
Summa Theologica, Part II-II (Secunda Secundae) Translated by Fathers of the English Dominican Province
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I'm not a skinflint, but I would like my bank balance to level out for a week or two.
