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. —

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 See all Example Sentences for skinflint