as in miser
a mean grasping person who is usually stingy with money
a cheapskate who lived like a pauper, she was reputedly the wealthiest woman in the U.S. at the time of her death
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Recent Examples of cheapskate
The company explained that the system, which is being tested in random locations around the U.S. and Canada, is intended to create incentives against cheapskates.
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Emily Heil, Washington Post, 3 Nov. 2023
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
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
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Emily Heil, Washington Post, 3 Nov. 2023
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
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
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for cheapskate
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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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“Cheapskate.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/cheapskate. Accessed 2 May. 2025.
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