skinflints

Here we are, a bunch of cheerful high rollers and festive check-grabbers, tossing our money around like there's no tomorrow, wondering who the hell gave these skinflints their citizenship papers.

Putting the Squeeze on Cheapskates Joe Queenan 2011

Those women continued, however, to be skinflints, and the men remained callously indifferent to those less fortunate than themselves.

Hide this from Robin Hanson, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009

By comparison, Ireland was only a hobby or sideline for the French banks: Combined, they extended a mere $12,000 per head, the skinflints.

When Irish Eyes Stop Smiling Theodore Dalrymple 2010

We attacked the skinflints and scrooges with all the zeal of Crusaders, certain that ours was a holy venture.

Learning to Die in Miami Carlos Eire 2010

I got so few tips from the skinflints that I went, worried about my tax return, to the GM who hired me.

Out of Context Ad Challenge: the Answer – The Bleat. 2009

Not to mention that whatever signal they hoped to send with their tip got lost in all the noise of people who got excellent service but tipped like skinflints anyway.

How To Send Back Restaurant Food | Lifehacker Australia 2009

True skinflints also know it's almost always cheaper to keep a vehicle that's paid off and not suffering from expensive mechanical problems than it is to sign up for a new-car loan.

How Much Is Your Guzzler Really Worth? 2009

The third option for real skinflints who want the taste without the price tag is to use oak chips.

A Year of Wine Tyler Colman 2008

The third option for real skinflints who want the taste without the price tag is to use oak chips.

A Year of Wine Tyler Colman 2008

The staggering hypocrisy of blasting the Tories for supposedly being radical right-wing skinflints over the last three years, only to accuse them of having spent far too much now?

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