The word "skinflint" is correct and usable in written English.
It is a noun and is used to refer to a person who is stingy with money. Example sentence: My brother is such a skinflint; he never spends any money on himself.
I still smile when I think of the skinflint behaviour the card evokes – of Aberdonians fleeing their homes before charitable tin-rattlers come knocking at the door, and then hurrying back again to avoid similar tin-rattlers, this time armed with tiny flags that, quick as lightning, they plunge into your lapel.
But many governments remembered their earlier warnings that Mr Netanyahu's policy—Har Homa and skinflint "redeployment" in the West Bank was likely to trigger new violence.Today, in his own country, Mr Netanyahu's election-winning promise of "peace with security" has turned sour.
Politicians publish their tax returns and list their income and assets (a habit which this year embarrassingly reveals Vice-President Al Gore as a charity skinflint).
Most businesses in the province have so far proved skinflint in spending on research and development.And a rigged higher-education market could also hobble innovation.
TRADITIONALLY, Britain has been an educational skinflint.
Half-brother Mario had to undergo drug testing after beating his girlfriend, and Christopher wrote a telltale book in 2008 in which he described his sister as a narcissist skinflint.
Otherwise, shouting the odds at skinflint employers, however justified, will be no more than picking a rhetorical fight with one sector to divert attention from happenings in another – in this case cutting the incomes of those who can least afford it.
Theroux drew a savage portrait of Naipaul as a depressive, a skinflint and a misogynist.
The second wife was model Ruth Post, who bore McShane his children Kate (now in fashion) and Morgan (a social worker), and who in 1995 told a newspaper that her ex-husband was a "tight-fisted skinflint", who "has neglected all his responsibilities as a father and been a lousy dad".
She slaves for years to support her two children on Caesar's skinflint wages.
The serious stuff is supplemented by a beguiling lineup of novelty stories (the girl who eats nothing but chicken nuggets), animal stories (the surfing hippopotamus), personal essays ("I married a skinflint!"), barely disguised press releases (cranberry-cheese-flavored crisps on sale at Tesco), recipes, gossip, crosswords, obituaries, amusing pictures, and heartwarming fluff.
