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Meanings of cheap skate in English

A person who is stingy and miserly.

Synonyms
Examples for "miser"
Examples for "miser"
1
Our tyrant is not the satyr or the torturer; but the miser.
A Miscellany of Men
2
The kangaroo and the miser carry all they love in a pouch.
Wise or Otherwise
3
The miser has no friends; but the spendthrift has generally too many.
Pebbles on the shore [by] Alpha of the plough
4
The round coins in the miser's stocking were safe in some sense.
A Miscellany of Men
5
Then the cheerful old miser put a nickel in my blistered hand.
The University of Hard Knocks
1
Be doubly careful of those to whom nature has been a niggard.
Autumn Leaves: Original Pieces in Prose and Verse
2
Miss Grandon might be queer and unsocial, but she was no niggard.
Floyd Grandon's Honor
3
She was a niggard in things which did not concern herself.
The Hawk of Egypt
4
But money is distributed with a niggard hand, and only once a year.
The English Governess at the Siamese Court / Being Recollections...
5
Praise or blame of its contriver, shown a niggard or profuse
Browning as a Philosophical and Religious Teacher
1
Of course, I'm a cheapskate compared with someone like Bob Harris.
Reuters
2
Then pray for a cheapskate judge and a long-shot verdict.
The capitol game
3
He picked me up at the two-dollar poker machines, so you know he's no cheapskate.
Four to score
4
Maybe it's coded with a cheapskate-detecting algorithm that will mess up my order next time.
Wired
5
You can hear everything in this cheapskate apartment.
Four to score
Usage of cheap skate in English
1
Grimshaw would curl his lip in a sneer and mutter: The cheap skate.
Michael, Brother of Jerry
2
I'd not waste breath teaching a whiner or a cheap skate.
Susan Lenox: Her Fall and Rise
3
She's a good, decent, affectionate girl, and Dave's a cheap skate, all right.
Main Street
4
You're nothing but a cheap skate, a tin-horn gambler, run down at the heels.
A Texas Ranger
5
You're a cheap skate trying to put up a front!
Broken to the Plow / A Novel
6
Ah, poke him one, the dirty cheap skate.
The Beautiful and Damned
7
I haven't always been a cheap skate.
Broken to the Plow / A Novel
8
He's not a cheap skate.
The Sisters-In-Law: A Novel of Our Time
9
Forever the cheap skate.
Terminal Compromise
10
What kind of cheap skates do you take us for?
100%: the Story of a Patriot
11
Cheap skate, he might have made it twenty.
The Cow Puncher
12
We got to go rollin' down to Rio as well as sing about it to a lot of cheap skates.
Michael, Brother of Jerry
13
This country is full of promoters, cheap skates, and that sort, and they'll try to stampede you into some investment.
The Ne'er-Do-Well
14
"You're taggin' yoreself a bully an' a cheap skate when you do it."
A Man Four-Square
15
He said he was a Gentleman, and that no Cheap Skate in a Plug Hat could tell him where to Get Off.
More Fables
16
"I never saw one that wasn't a cheap skate."
The Shadow World
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