skinflint

But there was something that had to be seen to first, if the old skinflint would let her see to it.

I' 11 corner the old skinflint in church this morning.

It would be no more than the old skinflint rightly had coming to him.

Though why ever you sought to please that old skinflint is beyond me.

He was a skinflint, if you know what I mean."

What the deuce, I thought, can the old skinflint want of me now?

Trevelyan was a skinflint and I told him so to his face.

Because he was a notorious skinflint, the purchase made headlines.

You say he's got a bit of a reputation as a skinflint.'

Grandad went to work for a farmer who was rather an old skinflint.

We took the house, although that skinflint held out for one hundred and thirty-eight dollars.

The old skinflint had wrenched his wealth from suffering men.

In a marriage where the husband is a skinflint, the control issue is obvious.

I told him he was being a skinflint.

The daughter of affluence was the wife of a skinflint.

"The old skinflint will be glad to earn a couple of francs."

"You dealt with that old skinflint - although it was against good judgment.

He was also a skinflint, a womanizer and man who could hold a grudge for decades.

"You could afford the good drop of wine yourself, you old skinflint!"

He needed a bodyguard sometimes, this outrageous skinflint, particularly with visitors like Larry.

"Do you know the story about the old skinflint and crank who only had a happy smile on his face just before his death?"

You don't know -what an old skinflint he was.

He's holding it for a big clean-up, the skinflint!

That was how we came across Skinflint.

Besides all this the Emperor is a skinflint.