skinflinty

[skin-flint-ee]

adjective

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

Example Sentences

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 Project Gutenberg

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

Yet Finley can be skinflinty as well.

From Time Magazine Archive

Skinflinty old Finance Minister Fritz Sch�ffer, fighting stubbornly for his pfennig-pinching budgets, and Central Bank Boss Wilhelm Vocke. keeping alert hands on the nation's interest rates, have helped immensely in preserving the federal republic against inflationary dangers.

From Time Magazine Archive