scrooge-like

adjective

Like a scrooge in being miserly, tight-fisted, and a kill-joy.

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Meanings

adjectivescrooge-like (comparative more scrooge-like, superlative most scrooge-like)

comparative more scrooge-like · superlative most scrooge-like · alternative Scrooge-like

  1. Like a scrooge in being miserly, tight-fisted, and a kill-joy.

    In 1963, there was even more of a shutdown [at Christmas]. The Western and London Midland Regions ran no trains, with the rest of the network having the "barest of skeleton services". The Daily Herald called Beeching's cuts "the most scrooge-like... in railway history".

    2023 December 27, David Turner, “Silent lines...”, in RAIL, number 999, page 30

Synonyms & antonyms

Also see
chintzymeanmiserablemiserlypenurioussnippystingy

Origin

From scrooge + -like.

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