Examples of using "Скупой" in a sentence and their english translations:
Tom is miserly.
Buy cheap and waste your money.
- He is very stingy with his money.
- He's very stingy.
- Tom is very frugal, but he's not stingy.
- Tom is very frugal, but he isn't stingy.
Buy cheap and waste your money.
Once upon a time, there lived a stingy old man in the village.
Take back what you said about me being stingy.
Tom was stingy.
A miser hoards money not because he is prudent but because he is greedy.
Money is a good servant but a bad master.
Don't be stingy.
In the Netherlands, it is the custom that, when during the construction of a house the highest point has been reached and the roof is ready for tiling, the client treats the construction workers to so-called "tile beer" to celebrate this. A flag is then placed on the ridge of the house. If the client is too stingy to treat, not a flag, but a broom is placed.