skinflint

Example Sentences

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Old Skinflint Holden couldn't understand that sort of talk.

From Green Valley by Reynolds, Katharine

Twenty years ago that old Skinflint found the rates and taxes intolerable; and doesn't everybody find them intolerable?

From A Terrible Temptation A Story of To-Day by Reade, Charles

I thought the nasal inflection made it more forceful, so I said, 'No, I won't haul no rubbish for no dollar and a half, and you can tell old Skinflint I said so.'

From Sunny Slopes by Hueston, Ethel

He was a Scotch boy, whom old Skinflint Jenkins' folks had adopted from an Orphan Asylum.

From In Orchard Glen by MacGregor, Mary Esther Miller

The Skinflint said, with rapture, to his friend, 'I think a great lot of the poor can be housed here!'

From A Survey of Russian Literature, with Selections by Hapgood, Isabel Florence