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
The Tibetan word for them, "miser", has been translated as both "serfs" and "subjects".
From BBC ● Apr. 20, 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
"You'd lock it up in your lock box and save it 'til you were fifty years old. You're the biggest miser on this planet."
From "The Lemonade War" by Jacqueline Davies
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
We're going going to make some pesto next season with our garden-grown basil and these nuts--the end result we will horde like gold misers.
From New York Times ● Dec. 1, 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
"The members of the alliance have become absolute misers in terms of our water use," Fredman said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 27, 2015
If they ever become impotent in the production of pleasure, it is when their possessors have become gluttons, sots, debauchees, misers, or some similar compound of human depravity.
From Monks, Popes, and their Political Intrigues by Alberger, John
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