(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".