skimp
verb (used without object)
to scrimp.
Example Sentences
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Nietzsche said God is dead, but skimped on details of how we’d deal with the corpse.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 30, 2026
Companies have skimped on dividends amid an epic bull run for stock prices, leaving the S&P 500’s yield of just 1.1% looking like finance’s vestigial tailbone—an evolutionary holdover without a clear purpose.
From Barron's ● Nov. 21, 2025
Prosecutors contend the armorer repeatedly skipped or skimped on standard gun-safety protocols that might have detected live rounds on set.
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 6, 2024
Citroen's Koskas said the carmaker had no desire to make the new C3 a "technological Christmas tree" but had not skimped on what mattered.
From Reuters ● Oct. 17, 2023
I had no time to tell him that his friend Rasseem had not skimped either.
From "The Many Assassinations of Samir, the Seller of Dreams" by Daniel Nayeri
