skinflint

Example Sentences

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He has poured a ridiculous amount of his own money into his team’s roster to transform the skinflint Mets into a financial juggernaut.

From The Wall Street Journal • Sep. 29, 2025

After a relationship marked by Turner being neat freak and a skinflint, they broke up after he shamed her for gaining 10 pounds.

From Salon • Dec. 2, 2023

Brown had gone from wise guy to wise man, from skinflint to a bit of a spendthrift; the bullet train caught his eye and his imagination, though it also courted controversy.

From Los Angeles Times • May 8, 2020

To his admirers, Mr. O’Rahilly was a renegade visionary and a skinflint con man who sometimes liked to find creative ways to leave posh restaurants without paying for his meals.

From Washington Post • Apr. 24, 2020

Especially when my father said that Mr. Big Bucks Ballard was the skinflint of skinflints, and there probably wouldn’t be much to eat.

From "Okay for Now" by Gary D. Schmidt