Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. One who is very reluctant to spend money; a miser.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. One who makes use of contemptible means to get or save money; a mean, niggardly, or avaricious person; a miser.
Wiktionary
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. A penurious person; a miser; a niggard.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a selfish person who is unwilling to give or spend
Examples
“Eilert, though, is known as a skinflint, and that sells in times like these.”
“He didn't seem to be too bothered by his 'skinflint' reputation.”
“But you know you have now made Bubba's "skinflint" list for having even made a complaint about it.”
“_kyminopristes_ ( "skinflint"), a cumin-seller, as it were, because he makes a great fuss about things of little value.”
“skinflint' husband after 12 largely unhappy years of marriage, that he hit her head with a hammer at least seven times.”
“Ensconced at First Lutheran Church in Back Bay, the venue provided some questionable Boston hospitality via the city's skinflint approach to parking — a meter maid was already lurking as I fed my quarters; the concert featured multiple announcements of which cars were in the process of being towed.”
“Stephen Taaffe's penetrating look at the Army's "one indispensable man," by contrast, skirts the chief of staff's more conspicuous duties, such as coaxing funds out of a skinflint Congress, locking horns with Winston Churchill over grand strategy and training millions of civilians to wage war.”
“Benny, rather than turning over his wallet he nurtured a reputation as a notorious skinflint crosses his arms, furrows his brow, taps his lips, and stares into space.”
“To hear some Republicans talk, you'd think that if only we squeeze hard enough, and go whole hog for their eat-your-spinach skinflint economics, prosperity will return.”
The Huffington Post: Ian Fletcher: Why the Budget Is the Wrong Thing to Fight About
“And, of course, the single most loathed archetype in America: the skinflint co-worker who nudges a piddling $4.75 into the pot when the bar bill arrives, because she only had a Campari spritzer while everybody else had two Sam Adams.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘skinflint’.
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GRE Barrons Wordlist
A complete Barron's Wordlist for GRE preparation. Your online flashcard replacement.
abase, abash, abate, abbreviate, abdicate, aberrant, aberration, abet, abeyance, abhor, abject, abjure and 4087 more...
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Gapeseeds and Muckworms - Compound De...
A list of compound derogatory names such as gapeseed, muckworm and lickspittle. Your one-word contributions to this list are welcome.
See sionnach's list derogatory terms I should use ...gapeseed, muckworm, lickspittle, makeweight, bootlicker, backscratcher, apple-polisher, backslapper, brownnoser, rakeshame, yesman, freeloader and 293 more...
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Unsavory characters
absconder, aretaloger, arriviste, avaunter, bamboozler, bandit, banger, barbarian, barmecide, barrator, beldam, blatherskite and 190 more...
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WF - nominal compounds (figurative)
An extensive list I have been working on for quite some time. Feel free to add more of the kind if you miss any.
brainstorming, upside, downside, goldplating, bikeshedding, mudslinging, downgrading, headhunter, streamlining, mainstreaming, gerrymandering, frontloading and 503 more...
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Killjoy et al
Namely, compounds consisting of a verb with a direct object immediately after it, without inflection
killjoy, lickspigot, quakebuttock, throttlebottom, scattergood, scapegrace, swillbowl, tosspot, breakfast, cutthroat, pickpocket, dreadnought and 84 more...
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Just 'cause I like 'em, S
scrunch, solace, sabotage, saccade, sacerdotal, sacrilegious, sacristy, snappy, skew, steadfast, scowl, scorch and 781 more...
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kalidas's Words
crepuscular, mellifluous, ephemeral, diaphanous, zeitgeist, geisterfahrer, infinite, eternal, idyllic, azure, reminiscent, oblivion and 521 more...
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inkhorn's Words
inkhorn, aplomb, apotheosis, asinine, avatar, bombastic, boorish, bromide, bucolic, cagey, canvass, digress and 991 more...
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I, Claudius
Words taken from I, Claudius by Robert Graves.
evocation, aureus, sestertii, denarii, assegai, pilum, framea, sibyl, propitiatory, duenna, tyrannicide, maggoty and 136 more...
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Compounds That Look Freakish
You know who you are, freakish compounds. Though very useful, some of these words just don't seem right together--or, their meanings are so far from what the two (or more) component words suggest t...
nightjar, bullfinch, grassquit, bananaquit, ovenbird, waxwing, stonechat, wheatear, bushtit, wrentit, starthroat, godwit and 158 more...
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That's right, another list
muck-a-muck, ipse dixit, solipsism, anticlinal, analogical, amoral, alogical, synclinal, disinclined, iconological, studly, flitch and 179 more...
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stpeter's Words
abase, abasement, abashed, abdicate, aberrant, abeyance, abhor, abhorrent, abide, abject, ablation, abnegation and 3536 more...
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Reading Random
Got unknown words randomly
delinquency, modicum, dissuade, incendiary, destitute, lachrymose, plight, ruse, empirical, pedantic, demography, giggle and 444 more...
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Papageno's Words, Pt. I
hobbledehoy, absquatulate, chthonic, prolix, ululate, internecine, verisimilitude, animadversion, concupiscence, vertiginous, cucullate, lucubrate and 1554 more...
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kevincooper's Words
prosopopeia, lisle, magisterial, zeitgeist, zeugma, bloviate, apocryphal, bon mot, cacophony, euphony, brigandier, micturition and 313 more...
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GRE 3500 S
saccharine, sacrilegious, sacrosanct, sagacious, sage, salient, salutary, salvo, sanctimonious, sanguine, sap, sardonic and 138 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for skinflint.
slumry Someone who would skin a flint if s/he could. And could gain from it.
Much like blood from a turnip Jul 11, 2007
abraxaszugzwang Can't believe I'm a skinflint. Mar 4, 2007