as in miser
a mean grasping person who is usually stingy with money
her father is a real scrooge and refuses to pay her way through college, even though he can easily afford it
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Recent Examples of scrooge
Some people associate a frugal spender with a narrow-minded person who is a tightwad, a cheapskate, a penny-pincher, and worse of all an outright scrooge.
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Lance Eliot, Forbes, 18 Jan. 2025
The trailer begins with Clarke as a disillusioned scrooge who hates her job as an elf at the local Christmas shop.
—Christi Carras, Los Angeles Times, 14 Aug. 2019
And blue America’s bitter scrooges impatiently explained why this outpouring of corporate largesse was actually bad.
—Eric Levitz, Daily Intelligencer, 21 Dec. 2017
Lance Eliot, Forbes, 18 Jan. 2025
The trailer begins with Clarke as a disillusioned scrooge who hates her job as an elf at the local Christmas shop.
—Christi Carras, Los Angeles Times, 14 Aug. 2019
And blue America’s bitter scrooges impatiently explained why this outpouring of corporate largesse was actually bad.
—Eric Levitz, Daily Intelligencer, 21 Dec. 2017
Recent Examples of Synonyms for scrooge
miser
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Rather than just a simple miser, this movie portrays Scrooge as more of a ruthless businessman who believes he’s justified in his actions, making the character more relatable and redemptive.—
Janey Tracey,
Entertainment Weekly,
13 Dec. 2025
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And while those are all central elements of the story, most people forget that the transformation of the most famous miser in literary history, Ebenezer Scrooge, hinges on an incident with a young caroler that Scrooge recalls fairly early in the 1843 novella.—
Steve Palopoli,
Mercury News,
13 Dec. 2025
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“Scrooge.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/scrooge. Accessed 12 Jan. 2026.
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