(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.
(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.
Stingy
Definition:
(a.) Stinging; able to sting.
(superl.) Extremely close and covetous; meanly avaricious; niggardly; miserly; penurious; as, a stingy churl.
Example Sentences:
(1) Our state pension isn't just stingy compared with other prosperous western European countries.
(2) The scarcity of funds traditionally available to mount nutrition programs has made program administrators stingy when contemplating evaluation budgets.
(3) Italy At least England know what to expect from the Azzurri : a masterclass in the retention of possession, orchestrated by Andrea Pirlo in his quarterback role; a stingy defence most likely forged at Juventus; and a maverick forward capable of brilliance and lunacy in equal measures.
(4) This may seem stingy in comparison with some of the best non-Isa savings rates on the market.
(5) Our universities have sat passively for the last decade under a succession of stingy governments and panicked vice-chancellors, and student activists were fragmented and disillusioned.
(6) But it was to Ed Miliband that they bared their sharpest teeth, asking him the toughest questions and proving stingy with their applause.
(7) In what may become a case study in how not to defuse a crisis, Sterling, a national pariah who is battling to keep his basketball team, also accused wealthy black people of being stingy philanthropists in contrast to Jews such as himself.
(8) Then there's the culture that makes Germans the biggest savers and most reluctant spenders, encouraging national stereotypes about the thrifty and the spendthrift, the scroungers and the stingy.
(9) If you're a Braves fan concerned about Dodger pitching, it's because your team isn't great at getting on base, and that could be a problem against a stingy LA staff.
(10) As a result, big banks get to borrow at extremely low rates, even as they remain stingy on lending to small businesses and homebuyers, which boosts their profit margins.
(11) Gordon Brown had been stingy with public spending in the late 1990s, building up a sizeable fiscal war chest in the process.
(12) Starbucks might be stingy when it comes to taxes, but they'll quite happily sell you a gluten-free sarnie to go with your soya latte.
(13) She will say she wants to make it easier for people, and women in particular, to work by increasing access to child care, paid leave and paid sick days, areas where the US is stingy compared to most other developed nations.
(14) That Lester became a reliable force helped steady the Sox rotation, and they'll look to him tonight to continue what he's done in the playoffs, which is be stingy.
(15) There can be no doubt that Tottenham have the defence to win the title, given that it has taken them 10 matches to concede from open play this season, but Mauricio Pochettino needs his team to be as slick up front as they are stingy at the back if they are going to last the pace.
(16) Only Liverpool and Manchester City have scored more this term, even if none can match Chelsea's stingy record of 23 goals shipped in 31 games.
(17) healthcare Meanwhile, moderates in the same party feel the tax credits are too stingy, especially for low earners and older people.
(18) It wasn’t the greatest strategy.” In complicated wrangling, House Speaker John Boehner sought to enact fast track coupled with trade adjustment assistance – which many Republicans saw as too generous for unemployed workers and many Democrats view as too stingy.
(19) Financial help often flows from the older to the younger generation (such as help with adult children’s and grandchildren’s expenses) until very late old age – hardly a sign of stinginess.
(20) Frustrated by the banks’ stinginess after the recession, they raised money by selling shares to the public, a scheme called Equity for Punks , now in its fourth iteration.