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 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.
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 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.
6 The Imperial skinflint 's idea of a good price was pretty steep.
7 She slaves for years to support her two children on Caesar's skinflint wages.
8 And I am stuck with Mr. McPherson at the drugstore - another skinflint .
9 It's fitting that I call Carter what he is, and he's a skinflint .
10 You don't know skinflint Plushkin who feeds his people so badly?
11 You had her money but you were a bit of a skinflint , weren't you?
12 Some even went so far as to call him "a miserly skinflint . "
13 I don't dare to go to the old skinflint again.
14 They say she's a worse old skinflint than her husband.
15 A skinflint wasn't the right personality type for Zach.
16 Well, up comes the old skinflint in his buggy.
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