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A person who is stingy and miserly.
miser
niggard
cheapskate
miser
niggard
cheapskate
1
Our tyrant is not the satyr or the torturer; but the
miser
.
2
The kangaroo and the
miser
carry all they love in a pouch.
3
The
miser
has no friends; but the spendthrift has generally too many.
4
The round coins in the
miser
's
stocking were safe in some sense.
5
Then the cheerful old
miser
put a nickel in my blistered hand.
1
Be doubly careful of those to whom nature has been a
niggard
.
2
Miss Grandon might be queer and unsocial, but she was no
niggard
.
3
She was a
niggard
in things which did not concern herself.
4
But money is distributed with a
niggard
hand, and only once a year.
5
Praise or blame of its contriver, shown a
niggard
or profuse
1
Of course, I'm a
cheapskate
compared with someone like Bob Harris.
2
Then pray for a
cheapskate
judge and a long-shot verdict.
3
He picked me up at the two-dollar poker machines, so you know he's no
cheapskate
.
4
Maybe it's coded with a
cheapskate
-
detecting
algorithm that will mess up my order next time.
5
You can hear everything in this
cheapskate
apartment.
1
Grimshaw would curl his lip in a sneer and mutter: The
cheap
skate
.
2
I'd not waste breath teaching a whiner or a
cheap
skate
.
3
She's a good, decent, affectionate girl, and Dave's a
cheap
skate
,
all right.
4
You're nothing but a
cheap
skate
,
a tin-horn gambler, run down at the heels.
5
You're a
cheap
skate
trying to put up a front!
6
Ah, poke him one, the dirty
cheap
skate
.
7
I haven't always been a
cheap
skate
.
8
He's not a
cheap
skate
.
9
Forever the
cheap
skate
.
10
What kind of
cheap
skates
do you take us for?
11
Cheap
skate
,
he might have made it twenty.
12
We got to go rollin' down to Rio as well as sing about it to a lot of
cheap
skates
.
13
This country is full of promoters,
cheap
skates
,
and that sort, and they'll try to stampede you into some investment.
14
"You're taggin' yoreself a bully an' a
cheap
skate
when you do it."
15
He said he was a Gentleman, and that no
Cheap
Skate
in a Plug Hat could tell him where to Get Off.
16
"I never saw one that wasn't a
cheap
skate
.
"
cheap
skate
cheap