skinflintyadj.

1835 Thorough-bred Poor Gentleman's Bk. 19 The cheap ones [sc. boarding-houses] are dirty and skin-flinty.

1886 F. R. Stockton Casting away Mrs. Lecks & Mrs. Aleshine ii. 122 If he undertook to be skinflinty he'd better try it on somebody else besides us.

1901 Munsey's Mag. 25 431/2 The man with the skinflinty heart.

1996 C. Sten Weaver-god, he Weaves ii. 54 What..the skinflinty ways of the ship's owners have not yet ruined with their corrupting touch, the reckless crew is busy destroying.

2001 Houston Chron. (Nexis) 21 Jan. 1 You could stay a week here without tipping a dime, if you wanted to be a little skinflinty.

1899 Daily News 19 Sept. 6/1 He behaved skin-flintily to Max Müller.

1991 N.Y. Times (Nexis) 7 Feb. a25/1 Germany, finally recognizing that the ‘Auschwitz in the Sand’ charges were true, has guiltily but skinflintily mailed in its pledge.

1861 London Rev. & Weekly Jrnl. 16 Feb. 170 Love of approbation,..for the time, conquers her native skinflintiness.

1977 H. J. Klein Other People's Business 185 That would appear a well rationalized subterfuge for plain old skinflintiness.

1997 San Francisco Chron. (Nexis) 6 Apr. 2 She was a middle-class woman by then, who needn't have been particularly concerned about money. My mother..accused her of skin-flintiness.