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scrooge-like

a. Like a (l en scrooge) in being (l en miserly), (l en tight-fisted), and a (l en kill-joy).

Usage examples of "scrooge-like".

Haunted, perhaps, by the ghost of Christmas Future, he underwent a Scrooge-like change of heart and settled with the widow for a more-than-generous figure, upon which his run of bad luck ceased as promptly as it had begun.