scrooge

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The fictional character Ebenezer Scrooge of Dickens’s A Christmas Carol
A miserly, selfish person, comparable to the fictional character Ebenezer Scrooge of Dickens’s A Christmas Carol
disapproval If you call someone a Scrooge, you disapprove of them because they are very mean and hate spending money. What a bunch of Scrooges. someone who hates spending money (Ebenezer Scrooge, character in A Christmas Carol (1843) by Charles Dickens)
Ebenezer Scrooge, a character in Dickens's A Christmas Carol
A miserly, selfish person
{f} scrimp, be frugal; behave miserly
a selfish person who is unwilling to give or spend
{i} miser, overly frugal person, cheapskate, very stingy person
Ebenezer Scrooge
A fictional man who is greedy and despises Christmas until his eventual redemption and is the protagonist of A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
Uncle Scrooge
A rich miser

It is an anomaly of our times that an Uncle Sam spending at a rate of some $128 billion yearly should become an Uncle Scrooge in the treatment of government workers!.

scrooges
plural of scrooge
scrooge
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