Cheapskate used in a sentence

Cheapskate in a sentence as a noun

I was with you until you mentioned poor/cheapskate. How's life in that bubble of yours?

Lesson learned: don't host your stuff at unknown cheapskate companies, you got what you paid for. $1 a month or "one time fee" for hosting, really?

That's a pretty good deal if you're a cheapskate living in london. Sandwhiches can be 9 pounds by themselves.

Bringing in an app saying "I'm a cheapskate that doesn't want to pay full price" is not the message I want to give to coffee shop staff.

Just because somebody prefers free/open-source software doesn't make them a "cheapskate"

Sounds like a totally cheapskate-y move. As for "games that crash all the time" you do know that there are tons of quality titles for iOS right, even for huge companies like EA?

Call me a "cheapskate" if you will, but there's no way I'd pay $60 USD for a text editor with the promise of a free upgrade, and then pay $60 again when the seller decided to renege on that promise. You make a lot of money.

That won't work because they'll just attract the worst kind of cheapskate investor demographic, who'll move on to the next penny stock once the discount is expired.

People die because of sloppy techs, cheapskate owners and lazy managers. If something gives a touring crew a bit of security, that's absolutely their right.

When it's taken to excess, like the author is complaining about, the noun is "cheapskate" or "miser" and the adjective is "cheap" or "penny-pinching".

You're supposed to use the pre-tax amount, and doing what is normal, paying 15% of the pre-tax amount, doesn't make you a cheapskate, it makes you normal. You don't get bonus points for paying extra money to someone you'll likely never see again.

These guys hacked her e-mail and found some personal pictures of her in the beach with her husband and he showed them on national TV and exposed them to ridicule, saying that he was a cheapskate that wouldn't pay for his wife's boob job,etc. Karma is a ***** though.

And if you're an indie dev and you can't afford $22/month for awesome code hosting for all your projects, you are the kind of cheapskate that you might as well look elsewhere. Also, there are a TON of options out there like bitbucket, assembla, and so on if you want "cheaper" hosting.

Personal convenience or being a cheapskate are not, I believe, sufficient reasons to fail to pay for the copyrighted materials that you have obtained.

Are you best just not to offer the job for fear of exploiting someone or looking like a cheapskate, or do you put it out there and hope to find someone who is happy to work for that price? [I'm a developer who agrees with the OP so I'm playing devils advocate slightly, but there are two sides to this.

Yes, this may identify me as a cheapskate, but, well. If anything, I suspect this investment is to make Github more competitive with Bitbucket -- remember, BB's parent company is Atlassian, which has pretty deep enterprise experience they can leverage.

Some restaurants -- especially those that serve students -- even require a per-person minimum order to ensure that they're not losing money on cheapskates. You, sir, are a cheapskate, in that you're willing to break the social contract as to further your own interests, while transferring the cost of your benefit to your host.

The startup community is missing out on a lot of extremely useful experience and maturity with these cheapskate shenanigans. Of course, the investors are happy to lack this, because exploitation of naivety in founders is one of their primary mechanisms to maximize profit.

This is the kind of advice that leads mediocre founders to romanticize ramen-noodles and cheapskate their talent - either getting second tier people or trying to cajole talented engineers into taking much-below-market rate wages. Obviously it's better for founders to be capital efficient and keep costs low.

I don't want to see you proprietary code till I am hired in case some moron on your staff later goes on a spree suing people on an open source project where the code looks 'similar' to what they may have seen in your code-for-free cheapskate interview process.

Interesting, because the comments on other HN posts read like "There is no tablet market, there is only an iPad market", "Apple makes 80% of the money in the cell phone market, Apple is the only one making any money", "If you want to make money selling apps, the App Store is the best since it has the paying customers, Android is full of cheapskate freeloaders who want your app for free and install adblock". With the obligatory links to Asymco and Gruber to "prove" it.