A selfish person who is unwilling to give or spend

Usage examples of scrooge.

Scrooge was his sole executor, his sole administrator, his sole assign, his sole residuary legatee, his sole friend, and sole mourner.

Scrooge said the same: While the moneylender was notoriously understocked on scruples, there had been no indication that he was similarly short on marbles.

Famous Monsters of Filmland, Uncle Scrooge, and the rest of that twentieth-century ephemera you collect.

Is the fastidious, the impartial, the non-moral novelist only the grandchild, and not the remote posterity, of Dickens, who would not leave Scrooge to his egoism, or Gradgrind to his facts, or Mercy Pecksniff to her absurdity, or Dombey to his pride?

Some old scrooges might call it corruption, but down here we call it the spirit of giving.

I say, Darby scrooged his caubeen down on his head, stuck his fingers in his two ears, and making one grand rush through the door, bolted as fast as his legs could carry him down the road toward the Sleive-na-mon Mountains.

Vance cavorts in his own words like Scrooge McDuck in his money bin swimming pool.

Not Jacob Marley rattling his chains at Scrooge, not the Ghost of Christmas Future, not the White Lady of Avenel, not Hamlet's dad, certainly not Casper.

She might be a proper little Scrooge, with her cold efficiency and twanging voice and impersonal stare, but she didn't dress in that style, and paint in that artful way, to help balance the books.

I'm gonna pick me a wash tub full a grapes, an' I'm gonna set in 'em, an' scrooge aroun', an' let the juice run down my pants.

Darwin are still very much alive-as alive as Jacob Marley's ghost was to Ebenezer Scrooge.

Ebenezer Scrooge spent money like a lottery winner next to these guys.

The equivalent of a dollar to a dollar-fifty a week in rent was some­times a fifth of a worker's salary, and when one of these Ebenezer Scrooge slumlords decided to raise the rent, sometimes a large family found itself homeless with nothing but a handbarrow to tote away all its worldly goods.

The equivalent of a dollar to a dollar-fifty a week in rent was sometimes a fifth of a worker's salary, and when one of these Ebenezer Scrooge slumlords decided to raise the rent, sometimes a large family found itself homeless with nothing but a handbarrow to tote away all its worldly goods.