Rochester's comic element was to get the better of his vain, skinflint boss.
It is not good enough to adopt this miserable skinflint approach that will prevent women from getting what is just and fair.
Is he aware that many skinflint employers are using youngsters as cheap labour?
But there is this demoralising, skinflint dole, that barely keeps life in the bodies of our common people.
When an individual is parsimonious and niggardly in his approach to the people who stand in need, he is described as a skinflint.
It has a very small staff and works on a skinflint budget.
A system of relying on a fixed contract sum creates an incentive to skinflint.
It is precisely those families whose health is being hit by these skinflint charges.
