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

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 British author’s novella about a selfish and stingy miser who becomes woke in Victorian England was an instant holiday hit when published in 1843.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 9, 2022

Come on, you miser, I think at the slaver.

From "An Ember in the Ashes" by Sabaa Tahir

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

"The members of the alliance have become absolute misers in terms of our water use," Fredman said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 27, 2015

Her avarice was as notorious as her wealth, and stories are told of her, that far out-do all that is related of the most famous misers.

From Travels in the Steppes of the Caspian Sea, the Crimea, the Caucasus, &c. by Xavier Hommaire de Hell