How to Use skinflint in a Sentence

skinflint

noun

• She is a penny-pinching skinflint.
• Here, Scrooge is not simply a skinflint who refuses to donate to the poor and won’t give his employee a day off.
  — Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 19 Dec. 2019
• This skinflint foursome proudly refer to themselves as the Frugal Four.
  — The Economist, 30 Jan. 2020
• The ’97 Marlins gave us the post-World Series fire sale, perhaps the event most emblematic of skinflint owners’ greed and shortsightedness in that era.
  — Jack Dickey, SI.com, 12 Aug. 2017
• Brown’s entertaining rhetoric itself made him sound, as usual, like a skinflint, a penny-pinching scold.
  — George Skelton, latimes.com, 15 May 2017
• The second is a series of apologies and excuses for a tax cheat, voyeur-sadist, bad son, skinflint, publicity hound, social climber, shopaholic.
  — Stephen Metcalf, Los Angeles Times, 22 Apr. 2020
• Even the old skinflint Arsenal enjoyed the most lavish transfer window in its history.
  — Rory Smith, New York Times, 16 Sep. 2016
• The primary offseason story was players’ dissatisfaction with the skinflint owners who launched Astros-style tank jobs all over the league.
  — Si.com Staff, SI.com, 27 Mar. 2018
• But twenty and thirty-somethings aren't the only skinflint demographic.
  — Riley Griffin, chicagotribune.com, 18 June 2018
• The fact is that among recent administrations, at least, Democratic presidents have been the relative skinflints.
  — Eugene Robinson, The Mercury News, 9 Mar. 2017
• Miami owner Joe Robbie was a famous skinflint; Nick, acting as his own agent, demanded double his pay, guaranteed.
  — S.l. Price, SI.com, 9 May 2017
• Reaction to us as cheapskates: Our skinflint stratagems provoked no untoward response.
  — Fox, Town & Country, 21 Nov. 2012
• At the center of the show is actor Larry Yando's smart, heartfelt portrayal of Scrooge, the skinflint whose spiritual transformation (prompted by some supernatural intervention) drives the story.
  — Chicago Reader, 21 Dec. 2017

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