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Meanings of
cheapskate
in English
Portuguese
mão-de-vaca
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A miserly person.
tightwad
Portuguese
mão-de-vaca
A person who is stingy and miserly.
miser
niggard
cheap skate
Synonyms
Examples for "
miser
"
miser
niggard
cheap skate
Examples for "
miser
"
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
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!
Usage of
cheapskate
in English
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.
6
The
cheapskate
This man will find any and every reason to avoid paying the full bill.
7
I'm going to miss these
cheapskate
,
sawdust cookies.
8
But," he added, "so do them
cheapskate
actors in there."
9
Wealthy people actually tended to be on the
cheapskate
side when it came to things like tipping.
10
We were sitting in the pub and you told me what a
cheapskate
you thought Hannes was.
11
At the birthday, I discreetly didn't get a round in, which made me feel like a
cheapskate
.
12
What kind of
cheapskate
are you, anyway?
13
What, you
cheapskate
,
will you ruin me?
14
There's nothing worse than a
cheapskate
couple sitting in the corner, watching all the dancers without tipping.
15
Because he'd chosen to move our office to Selma Avenue I'd pegged David Koffman as a business
cheapskate
.
16
Early in his career, Sampson explains, Woods had gained a reputation as a
cheapskate
and a bad tipper.
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Grammar, pronunciation and more
About this term
cheapskate
Noun
Singular
Frequent collocations
cheapskate actors
cloak in cheapskate
favourite cheapskate
miss these cheapskate
old cheapskate
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Translations for
cheapskate
Portuguese
mão-de-vaca
Cheapskate
through the time