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Definition of Skinflints
1. skinflint [n] - See also: skinflint
Lexicographical Neighbors of Skinflints
Literary usage of Skinflints
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Nugae Litterariae: Or, Brief Essays on Literary, Social, and Other Themes by William Mathews (1896)
"... brandishing it before the company, '' with that in my hand, I can travel in
perfect safety from one end of the United States to the other' " Skinflints ..."
2. The Life of Mansie Wauch: Tailor in Dalkeith by David Macbeth Moir (1868)
"... played flee down to try the strength of Misses Skinflints'. ... incapacitated her
from making a similar attack on that of the Misses Skinflints. ..."
3. The Book Buyer by Charles Scribner's Sons (1898)
"The odor of the " tract," wherein drunkards are always made repentant and skinflints
tender-hearted and sinners to yearn for conversion, ..."
4. The Economist and General Adviser (1825)
"And then the Misses Skinflints— for knowledge of anatomy — their cutting up a
... I lost mine entirely in about a fortnight that I staid at Lady Skinflints. ..."
5. The Nicomachean Ethics of Aristotle by Aristotle (1897)
"This is the class of skinflints, and all such people whose names are derived from
an excessive unwillingness to give to anybody. Others again are induced to ..."
6. Notes and Queries by Martim de Albuquerque (1861)
"... Solid, or slim, or bold, or finical, Arcades in tiers, strings, cornices, and
bande,' All are submitted to these skinflints' hands ; Tints perish that ..."
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