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skinflinty

American  
[skin-flint-ee] / ˈskɪnˌflɪnt i /

adjective

  1. characteristic of or acting like a skinflint; stingy.

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Back in 1996 Thomas J. Stanley and William D. Danko wrote The Millionaire Next Door, a nonfiction study of workaday millionaires--who turned out to be a bunch of skinflinty, old-car-driving, warehouse-shopping, small-business owners.

From Time Magazine Archive

We just wanted to let him know that if he undertook to be skinflinty, he'd better try it on somebody else besides us.

From The Casting Away of Mrs. Lecks and Mrs. Aleshine by Stockton, Frank Richard

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