skinflints

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The skinflints are the companies publishing closed source stuff and the consumers using free software.

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One who is excessively stingy or cautious with money; a tightwad; a miser.

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noun

One who is excessively stingy or cautious with money; a tightwad; a miser.

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for skinflints.

noun

One who is excessively stingy or cautious with money; a tightwad; a miser.

Example sentences

The skinflints are the companies publishing closed source stuff and the consumers using free software.

I read this a while ago and it screamed BS, but the truth is, anybody who was working with skinflints like Ahmet Ertegun was going to be underpaid.

I don't understand why well-heeled penny-pinching skinflints always think they have so much virtue to teach others.

So I hope those skinflints do just raise the minimum wage a tiny bit.

It's their business model and people will be people, including the too clever for their own good, irrational skinflints that are prone to raging on line.

Great, now I'm going to advertise to a bunch of poor people and skinflints.

> Great, now I'm going to advertise to a bunch of poor people and skinflints.

When people have very little money (they don't want to spend money on a text message, not because they are skinflints but because they are poor) there's little chance to upsell goods to recoup the cost.

Proper noun examples

Skinflints.) Or accept that, yes, obligatory tipping is part of the culture, and while you may not like it (I sure don't) it is incumbent upon us to do right by the people whose services we are buying.