miser
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“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
Join Tiny Tim, the Christmas Ghosts and everyone’s favorite miser in the stage adaption of Charles Dickens’ classic Yuletide tale, proudly returning to ACT Theatre for its 47th year.
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 16, 2023
Apple’s ‘Spirited’ turns the oft-told tale on its head by making its miser a media manipulator, and viewing him through the perspective of the ghosts.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 18, 2022
She’d even talked her brother into coming along; he was a miser and had a lot of money.
From "Shooting Kabul" by N. H. Senzai
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
Decades of research have shown that humans are so-called cognitive misers.
From Scientific American ● Oct. 28, 2015
Even in our true systems we go on collecting mere words, playmarks and medals, as the misers do coins; and not till late do we transmute the words into feelings, the coins into enjoyments.
From The Optimist's Good Morning by Florence Hobart Perin
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