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Significados de cheapskate em inglês

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A miserly person.

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        A person who is stingy and miserly.

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              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
              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
              Uso de cheapskate em inglês
              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
              6
              The cheapskate This man will find any and every reason to avoid paying the full bill.
              The South African
              7
              I'm going to miss these cheapskate, sawdust cookies.
              Two for the dough
              8
              But," he added, "so do them cheapskate actors in there."
              Green Fancy
              9
              Wealthy people actually tended to be on the cheapskate side when it came to things like tipping.
              Cauldron of Ghosts
              10
              We were sitting in the pub and you told me what a cheapskate you thought Hannes was.
              The draining lake
              11
              At the birthday, I discreetly didn't get a round in, which made me feel like a cheapskate.
              The Guardian
              12
              What kind of cheapskate are you, anyway?
              The fifth servant
              13
              What, you cheapskate, will you ruin me?
              Act of will
              14
              There's nothing worse than a cheapskate couple sitting in the corner, watching all the dancers without tipping.
              Ebony
              15
              Because he'd chosen to move our office to Selma Avenue I'd pegged David Koffman as a business cheapskate.
              86'd: a novel
              16
              Early in his career, Sampson explains, Woods had gained a reputation as a cheapskate and a bad tipper.
              News.com.au
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              português
              mão-de-vaca
              Cheapskate ao longo do tempo