What's the difference between cheapo and cheapskate?

Cheapo


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Example Sentences:

  • (1) Master that skill, refuse to be blinded by a cheapo price tag tempting you to buy foolishly, and you are guaranteed to have the last laugh, in the chicest clothes.
  • (2) Thus the first film she did after completing the overblown Star Wars trilogy was the $2.5m Garden State, a scruffy, lovely, cheapo indie that was the directorial debut of Scrubs star Zach Braff.

Cheapskate


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Example Sentences:

  • (1) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Share Share this post Facebook Twitter Pinterest close 1.42pm BST Panini Cheapskates (@CheapPanini) @DanLucas86 All hail Mr Versatility, the Swiss Army knife of international football.
  • (2) Ishould start by confessing that I am a bit of a cheapskate.
  • (3) 10.35pm BST Panini Cheapskates (@CheapPanini) Benny's extraordinary 'fro.
  • (4) But we should not lose sight of the human suffering that accompanies them: the thousands driven to food banks because Duncan Smith's department cannot pay their benefits; the cheapskate firms that, with Duncan Smith's connivance, tell the chronically ill that they are fit for work when they are no such thing.
  • (5) Is someone sitting in a bedsit waiting for the Queen or some other cheapskate racketeer to call, employed or unemployed?
  • (6) Almost all low-paid work is essential: a living wage would stop cheapskate employers scrounging off tax credits and importing what too often looks like serf-labour.
  • (7) And so it was that the so-called hard discounters Aldi and Lidl , with their cheapskate sites and cut-price champagne, were cast as devious interlopers who cheated by paring margins to the bone.
  • (8) Last May, ahead of my maternity leave, I wrote about how I'm a bit of a cheapskate , and that I was going to resist all the attempts to part new mums from their cash.
  • (9) This time, her staff has emphasized its “cheapskate” mentality particularly to contributors.
  • (10) There should be no hiding place for cheapskate bosses who try to cheat their workers out of the minimum wage.

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