miser

“I’m a miser right now when it comes to what I’m spending at supermarkets,” he said.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 15, 2025

A new four-episode podcast aims to show how Ebenezer Scrooge became the miserable miser of the Charles Dickens’ classic “A Christmas Carol,” focusing on themes of redemption, mercy, grace and compassion.

From Washington Times ● Nov. 27, 2023

His dad, a “mouse-like miser of a man,” makes only short visits.

From Seattle Times ● Jun. 26, 2023

The Tibetan word for them, "miser", has been translated as both "serfs" and "subjects".

From BBC ● Apr. 20, 2023

Mrs. March would not leave Beth’s side, but rested in the big chair, waking often to look at, touch, and brood over her child, like a miser over some recovered treasure.

From "Little Women" by Louisa May Alcott

Jon Clinch has revived the life behind the famous ghost in a prequel that fleshes out the early relationship between the two old misers in “A Christmas Carol.”

From Washington Post ● Oct. 22, 2019

Fuel misers will choose the 20d, a 4-cylinder turbocharged diesel that the Environmental Protection Agency rates at an average of 36 miles per gallon.

From New York Times ● Apr. 20, 2017

How do we prepare them for a world where people are proud to be stupid misers who adhere to no moral code?

From Salon ● Jan. 28, 2017

When Geronte abruptly decides, as cranky old misers will, to leave his money to two distant relatives, Crispin dresses up like each, in turn, and portrays them as craven, insincere opportunists.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 25, 2015

With men, as with misers, it never strikes anything but quarters of the happy hour; like a bad clock, it never strikes full the Arcadian hour of our hope.

From Hesperus or Forty-Five Dog-Post-Days Vol. II A Biography by Jean Paul