miser

The choice is to have a system for drawing down your money smartly so you don’t run out, or living like a miser and ending up with more when you die than you started with.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 2, 2026

“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

Pansy is such a miser that, for a moment, you wonder if she’ll be visited by three spirits.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 9, 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

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

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

Two old misers, a man and a woman.

From The Dance of Death Exhibited in Elegant Engravings on Wood with a Dissertation on the Several Representations of that Subject but More Particularly on Those Ascribed to Macaber and Hans Holbein by Francis Douce