Cheapskate Definition & Meaning – Merriam-Webster

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Clearly, this isn’t your cheapskate uncle’s Spectra.

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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.

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Timothy Noah, The New Republic, 22 Sep. 2022

When the Halos somehow lucked into Mike Trout and Shohei Ohtani — the best player in baseball and the most exciting, respectively — Moreno suddenly turned into a cheapskate and didn’t surround them with a competitive team.

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Gustavo Arellano, Los Angeles Times, 24 Aug. 2022

The Rhodes Memorial, in other words, is not of the cheapskate, Soviet variety.

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Hedley Twidle, Harper’s Magazine, 23 Nov. 2021

Working against this is that as long as Fisher keeps payroll rock-bottom and doesn’t mind criticism of his cheapskate business model, the A’s are still profitable.

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Scott Ostler, San Francisco Chronicle, 23 May 2021

DeJoy was a rabid Yankees fan, a fierce opponent of organized labor, a maestro with profanity, a cheapskate professionally but a showoff personally, and a sharp dresser who sometimes welcomed tailors to his office and enforced a strict dress code.

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Washington Post, 31 Aug. 2020

Or just follow the cheapskates to YouTube, where tens of thousands of free karaoke vids are a search away.

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Michael Calore, Wired, 19 May 2020

Parking enforcement should crack down on the cheapskates.

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Lake County News-Sun, 24 May 2018

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