Crossword-Solution: SKINFLINT 9 letters, 14 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 16

There was Sam Carlon, an impudent old skinflint, who had definite notions about niggers, and hired Ben a summer and would not pay him.

There was Sam Carlon, an impudent old skinflint, who had definite notions about “niggers,” and hired Ben a summer and would not pay him.

Wait-still always asks father for me, but I wouldn't take any chances to-day, and I spoke to him myself; indeed I almost coaxed him!” “He's a regular old skinflint!” cried Mark, getting out of the wagon and walking beside her.

Deacon Baxter discovered everything this afternoon, like the old fox that he is, and turned Patty out of the house.” “Mean old skinflint!” exclaimed Rod excitedly, all the incipient manhood rising in his ten-year-old breast.

They had just sat down to the repast when the weazen-faced patriarch of the tribe remarked, by way of grace, it may be supposed, "Be jabers, but isn't ould Holcroft givin' us a foine spread the noight! Here's bad luck to the glowerin' ould skinflint!" and he poured out a bumper from the jug.