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• n  a selfish person who is unwilling to give or spend

• Sophia Smith, for example, inherited a fortune from a skinflint bachelor brother and intended to open a school for deaf-mutes until she was told that there were not enough of .
• Hoping to get a raise from the skinflint that I worked for in Chicago, I phoned the news to get a go-ahead.
• Even the most skinflint shindigs run to a few hundred guests, several days of feasts and, occasionally, near bankruptcy for the hosts.

• niggard
• scrooge
• churl

News & Articles

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• The Best Sunscreen for Your Money
  When it comes to skin cancer, I’m a skinflint. I was first diagnosed with melanoma when I was a teenager. I lost part of my left ear to the disease. Since then, with what’s left of both ears, I’ve listened ...
  June 24, 2013 - Money Talks News via Yahoo! Finance

Quotes

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• Daniel in Macleans.ca
  In a pinched economy, consumers are embracing their inner skinflint,Slate's Daniel Gross writes. "And Wal-Mart is a penny pincher's paradise."