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.
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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
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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
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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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This ahead-of-its-time 1988 film stars Bill Murray as Frank Cross, a TV executive and self-seeking miser who receives a wake-up call from the ghosts of Christmas Past (David Johansen), Present (Carol Kane) and Future (Robert Hammond) to help straighten his mean spirit.—
Skyler Caruso,
People.com,
19 Dec. 2024
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“Skinflint.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/skinflint. Accessed 4 May. 2025.
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