What's the difference between cheapo and skinflint?

Cheapo


Definition:

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.

Skinflint


Definition:

  • (n.) A penurious person; a miser; a niggard.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Skinflints and mixtape collectors are taking on the world's vinyl fetishists with the arrival of the first-ever Cassette Store Day.
  • (2) The Treasury's carefully crafted riposte, spelled out in the autumn statement green book last week, is that rather than a tale of skinflint employers and their downtrodden staff, the weakness of take-home pay is a consequence of the increased cost to employers of providing staff pensions, and paying higher national insurance contributions after the rate rose under Labour.
  • (3) She had a reputation for being a skinflint and Burns wrote on her death: Dweller in yon dungeon dark, Hangman of creation!
  • (4) Mervyn Kohler, special adviser for Help the Aged, said the chancellor had delivered "a truly skinflint package for the UK's older citizens".

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