Examples of scrooge in a Sentence
her father is a real scrooge and refuses to pay her way through college, even though he can easily afford it
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Some people associate a frugal spender with a narrow-minded person who is a tightwad, a cheapskate, a penny-pincher, and worse of all an outright scrooge.
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Lance Eliot, Forbes, 18 Jan. 2025
The trailer begins with Clarke as a disillusioned scrooge who hates her job as an elf at the local Christmas shop.
—Christi Carras, Los Angeles Times, 14 Aug. 2019
And blue America’s bitter scrooges impatiently explained why this outpouring of corporate largesse was actually bad.
—Eric Levitz, Daily Intelligencer, 21 Dec. 2017
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Lance Eliot, Forbes, 18 Jan. 2025
The trailer begins with Clarke as a disillusioned scrooge who hates her job as an elf at the local Christmas shop.
—Christi Carras, Los Angeles Times, 14 Aug. 2019
And blue America’s bitter scrooges impatiently explained why this outpouring of corporate largesse was actually bad.
—Eric Levitz, Daily Intelligencer, 21 Dec. 2017
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“Scrooge.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/scrooge. Accessed 28 Mar. 2025.
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