10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «SKINFLINTY»
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skinflinty in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
skinflinty and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Ace the Verbal on the SAT
Generosity or Selfishness Generous Tightfisted or frugal altruistic cheap
beneficent greedy benevolent miserly charitable niggardly eleemosynary
parsimonious hospitable skinflinty humanitarian sparing magnanimous spartan
munificent thrifty ...
Loren Edward Meierding, 2005
"If you are afraid to use your money, if you are close, saving and skinflinty, in
word, thought or deed, you are laying the foundation for unhappiness and
poverty. The miser is not really rich, he is poor, poor, POOR." (W. E. T.) "I put it
there ...
Elizabeth Jones Towne, Inc ebrary, Elizabeth Towne, 1996
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Advanced Logo: A Language for Learning
... [YOU ARE SOMEWHAT TIGHT] 7SH0W SENTENCE [HE IS] [A [TERRIBLE
SKINFLINTY] MISER] [HE IS A [TERRIBLE SKINFLINTY] MISER] As the last
example shows, SENTENCE removes only the outer brackets from each input list
.
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The Weaver-God, He Weaves: Melville and the Poetics of the Novel
What time and nature and the skinflinty ways of the ship's owners have not yet
ruined with their corrupting touch, the reckless crew is busily destroying, the cook,
for example, "frequently helping himself to splinters for kindling-wood from the ...
than like her, a skinflinty old cheapskate like her, not good for even a lousy nickel,
and so what if the late not-so-great Randall Garfield hadn't left them well off? Why
did she always make it sound like that was his fault? Who had married him?
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Our Human Hearts: A Medical and Cultural Journey
That's really the nub: everybody makes fun of 'managed care' because they think
of CEOs in office buildings making skinflinty decisions about length of stay, what
procedures can be justified, and so forth — and that's a factor, sure enough.
Albert Howard Carter, 2006
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500 Years of New Words: the fascinating story of how, when, ...
Roget's Thesaurus does not skimp on syllables when listing the synonyms for
skinflinty: parsimonious, penurious, stingy, miserly, niggardly, sparing, grudging,
illiberal, ungenerous, mercenary, venal, covetous, avaricious, greedy, grasping
and ...
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Your Creativity Unleashed!: Amplify Your Wealth and ...
The blueberry gas bothered me, causing me to be much more loquaciously
superdiabolical, in the youth, feigning a subverted consciousness—skinflinty, I
decided toincinerate thelast famine rock band. The Twain Theater mustn'tend,
atall,a ...
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Stephen King Goes to the Movies
And blubbering wasn't the only danger. He wanted to scream at her that he'd
rather be like his father than like her, a skinflinty old cheapskate like her, not good
for even a lousy nickel, and so what if the late 186 | stepHen King goes to tHe ...
Ben teased her singing, "Pinchfisty, skinflinty." "Mother, you're so stubborn.” One
by one they went gratefully to bed. Louie stayed on the porch with her long after
the children were bedded down. The day Julie met Joseph Fritzer was the last ...
