as in miser
a mean grasping person who is usually stingy with money the team's owner is a skinflint whose penny-pinching ways keep the team from acquiring any real talent

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Recent Examples of skinflint The skinflint editor played, lackadaisically, by Mr. Murray is based on Harold Ross. Joe Morgenstern, WSJ, 21 Oct. 2021 In truth, that prudence was forced on the Legislature by former Gov. Jerry Brown, a fiscal skinflint compared with the liberal Newsom. George Skelton, Los Angeles Times, 20 May 2021 Despite the benefits in this measure, U.S. pandemic relief remains among the most skinflint, cheeseparing packages in the developed world. Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 21 Dec. 2020 Both political parties have endorsed a modest rate of taxation of the rich, and a wretched, skinflint system of welfare and social services. Ryan Cooper, TheWeek, 9 June 2020 See All Example Sentences for skinflint
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  • But as the legend grew, so did the myths — such as that of Comiskey being a miser, forcing his players to seek compensation through gamblers.
    Ronald Blum, Chicago Tribune, 14 May 2025
  • Julia Soares, an assistant professor of cognitive science at Mississippi State University, said this tendency aligns with the decades-old social science concept of the cognitive miser.
    Celia Ford, Vox, 10 Mar. 2025

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“Skinflint.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/skinflint. Accessed 25 May. 2025.

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