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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But as the legend grew, so did the myths — such as that of Comiskey being a miser, forcing his players to seek compensation through gamblers.—
Ronald Blum,
Chicago Tribune,
14 May 2025
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Julia Soares, an assistant professor of cognitive science at Mississippi State University, said this tendency aligns with the decades-old social science concept of the cognitive miser.—
Celia Ford,
Vox,
10 Mar. 2025
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“Scrooge.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/scrooge. Accessed 23 Jul. 2025.
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