cheapskate

noun

cheap·skate ˈchēp-ˌskāt

Synonyms of cheapskate next

: a miserly or stingy person

especially : one who tries to avoid paying a fair share of costs or expenses

Example Sentences

a cheapskate who lived like a pauper, she was reputedly the wealthiest woman in the U.S. at the time of her death

Recent Examples on the Web Supporters of the new verification system have criticized those unwilling to pay as cheapskates or worse, and the argument would have an internal sort of logic if the new product did the same thing as the old product. —

Brian Fung, CNN, 24 Apr. 2023 Andy’s a cheapskate. —

Phillip Picardi, Vogue, 16 Dec. 2020 Clearly, this isn't your cheapskate uncle's Spectra. —

Joe Lorio, Car and Driver, 6 Dec. 2022 Buffett may be, like Scrooge, kind of a cheapskate with personal expenditures, but unlike Scrooge (and unlike Gramm), Buffett believes that the wealthy are undertaxed. —

Timothy Noah, The New Republic, 22 Sep. 2022 When the Halos somehow lucked into Mike Trout and Shohei Ohtani — the best player in baseball and the most exciting, respectively — Moreno suddenly turned into a cheapskate and didn’t surround them with a competitive team. —

Gustavo Arellano, Los Angeles Times, 24 Aug. 2022 The Rhodes Memorial, in other words, is not of the cheapskate, Soviet variety. —

Hedley Twidle, Harper's Magazine, 23 Nov. 2021 Working against this is that as long as Fisher keeps payroll rock-bottom and doesn’t mind criticism of his cheapskate business model, the A’s are still profitable. —

Scott Ostler, San Francisco Chronicle, 23 May 2021 DeJoy was a rabid Yankees fan, a fierce opponent of organized labor, a maestro with profanity, a cheapskate professionally but a showoff personally, and a sharp dresser who sometimes welcomed tailors to his office and enforced a strict dress code. —

Washington Post, 31 Aug. 2020 See More

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