skinflint
noun
skin·flint
ˈskin-ˌflint 
: a person who would save, gain, or extort money by any means : miser
Examples of skinflint in a Sentence
She is a penny-pinching skinflint.
the team's owner is a skinflint whose penny-pinching ways keep the team from acquiring any real talent
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The Pat McAfee Show is the purest manifestation of the skinflint era of ESPN.
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Corbin Smith, Rolling Stone, 13 Jan. 2024
So is the criticism not about his being a skinflint, but something else annoying—a fussbudget, a gadfly?
—A.e. Stallings, The New York Review of Books, 17 Aug. 2023
Gone are the days of some teams having nearly their entire 40-man roster in uniform and those with skinflint owners having only a few extras.
—Peter Abraham, BostonGlobe.com, 31 Aug. 2022
Manchin isn’t the only skinflint in American politics.
—Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 3 Mar. 2022
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Corbin Smith, Rolling Stone, 13 Jan. 2024
So is the criticism not about his being a skinflint, but something else annoying—a fussbudget, a gadfly?
—A.e. Stallings, The New York Review of Books, 17 Aug. 2023
Gone are the days of some teams having nearly their entire 40-man roster in uniform and those with skinflint owners having only a few extras.
—Peter Abraham, BostonGlobe.com, 31 Aug. 2022
Manchin isn’t the only skinflint in American politics.
—Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 3 Mar. 2022
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“Skinflint.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/skinflint. Accessed 3 Mar. 2025.
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skinflint
noun
skin·flint
ˈskin-ˌflint
: a person who is very stingy in money matters : miser
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