skinflint
noun
skin·flint
ˈskin-ˌflint 
: a person who would save, gain, or extort money by any means : miser
Examples of skinflint in a Sentence
She is a penny-pinching skinflint.
the team's owner is a skinflint whose penny-pinching ways keep the team from acquiring any real talent
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Swift also paid for the text to be published in London newspapers, so that Schomberg’s skinflint relatives would see it.
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Ed Caesar, New Yorker, 2 May 2026
Maybe that’s unfair, but Boston’s skinflint reputation has been well earned.
—Mac Cerullo, Boston Herald, 10 Jan. 2026
The Pat McAfee Show is the purest manifestation of the skinflint era of ESPN.
—Corbin Smith, Rolling Stone, 13 Jan. 2024
So is the criticism not about his being a skinflint, but something else annoying—a fussbudget, a gadfly?
—A.e. Stallings, The New York Review of Books, 17 Aug. 2023
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Ed Caesar, New Yorker, 2 May 2026
Maybe that’s unfair, but Boston’s skinflint reputation has been well earned.
—Mac Cerullo, Boston Herald, 10 Jan. 2026
The Pat McAfee Show is the purest manifestation of the skinflint era of ESPN.
—Corbin Smith, Rolling Stone, 13 Jan. 2024
So is the criticism not about his being a skinflint, but something else annoying—a fussbudget, a gadfly?
—A.e. Stallings, The New York Review of Books, 17 Aug. 2023
See All Example Sentences for skinflint
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“Skinflint.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/skinflint. Accessed 23 May. 2026.
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skinflint
noun
skin·flint
ˈskin-ˌflint
: a person who is very stingy in money matters : miser
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