Scroogesque

comparative more Scroogesque · superlative most Scroogesque

1. Resembling or characteristic of Ebenezer Scrooge; bad-tempered, selfish and miserly.

   The Tories have been positively Scroogesque with our accumulated billions.

   1981 May 21, William Thorsell, “Life’s a ball, a Fund-thing”, in Edmonton Journal, page A4

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   To me, growing increasingly Scroogesque, each day is a Winterreise, without the snow, the linden tree, the cold (though a chute or two is pneumonia-drafty) or the weather-vane.

   1986, Studs Terkel, Chicago, Pantheon Books, →ISBN, page 2

   I mean three years ago in this very supplement of your newspaper some fool actually wrote an article called ‘How to Ruin Your Child’s Christmas’. That kind of stuff gets back to me and it hurts. I mean, we can do without that sort of Scroogesque rubbish.

   1987 December 24, “Santa Claus”, quotee, “The Santa Interview”, in The Age, 134th year, number 41,364, page 1

   Many gardeners are lukewarm toward poinsettias. The main trouble with them is they stay in bloom till March, but I suppose it’s Scroogesque to complain of a pot plant that behaves so well.

   1988 December 23, Henry Mitchell, “‘Rotten’ gifts for gardeners grow cheer”, in The Daily Sentinel, volume 97, number 23, Grand Junction, Colo., page 1C

   The great guru X Moore, former lead singer of Trotskyist skinhead band The Redskins, took a less Scroogesque view. He claimed that Xmas is but a foretaste of the coming socialist millennium[…]

   1989, New Socialist, page 56

   To the Scroogesque reference to a Christmas party which I attended, along with City staff, I must clear up the events that actually took place.

   1995 January 19, “An Open Letter to the Community from Willie Preston, Mayor Pro Tem”, in Lincoln News Messenger, volume 104, number 16, Lincoln, Calif., page 3

   Synonyms: Scroogelike, Scroogey, Scroogian