A crude uncouth ill-bred person lacking culture or refinement.
A selfish person who is unwilling to give or spend.
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Examples for "scrooge "
Examples for "scrooge "
1 It is Scrooge ; - a converted Scrooge ; and I, I suppose, am Tiny Tim.
2 Obviously, Disney already had their own ready-to-cook central character in Scrooge McDuck.
3 So what did his friend John French do for this seasonal Scrooge ?
4 Scrooge knew the men, and looked towards the Spirit for an explanation.
5 Scrooge looked about him for the Ghost, and saw it no more.
1 Would proper ink cost the old skinflint ninepence more per gallon, perhaps?
2 Because I know you, and know that you are a regular skinflint .
3 It was a skinflint document, and here are a couple of quotations:-
4 This old skinflint is opening his bosom and handing me a knife.
5 They do say you are a skinflint , yes, and a hard man.
1 Be doubly careful of those to whom nature has been a niggard .
2 Miss Grandon might be queer and unsocial, but she was no niggard .
3 She was a niggard in things which did not concern herself.
4 But money is distributed with a niggard hand, and only once a year.
5 Praise or blame of its contriver, shown a niggard or profuse
1 My heart lurched with anger; the churl might have lowered his voice.
2 In that case I cannot be such a churl as to refuse.
3 I should be a churl if I did not tell you so.
4 But he is a mannerless churl , we will not think of him.
5 My kinswoman could have received no greater kindness at the churl 's hands.
6 How like a churl I carried myself to him in all that!
7 I have it now; it is the old churl I mean.
8 Quoth the merchant in himself, This Bedouin is an addle-pated churl .
9 I can see in his face what a churl he is.
10 The base-hearted churl has failed to understand the meaning of true, honest sympathy.
11 Austin and I defied the old churl to do his worst.
12 If the road yields no other, then the churl that opens my gates.
13 I will say nothing against it if you treat me like a churl .
14 He was a churl of the most ferocious character, named Arridano.
15 I will not cross swords with a low-born churl like you.
16 Ought not the churl to thank God that the jades are still alive?
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