Last thing they got up was them little skimp skirts for hard times, that came so nigh bein' the ruin of the dry-goods men.
"Winter Fun"
William O. Stoddard
For they knew what to order; they did not skimp; they refrained from grinding down the faces of the poor.
"The Enchanted April"
Elizabeth von Arnim
She might shave prices, and cut, and skimp, and haggle to buy material, and put up her building at the least possible expense.
"A Daughter of the Land"
Gene Stratton-Porter