miser

“I’m a miser right now when it comes to what I’m spending at supermarkets,” he said.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 15, 2025

A new four-episode podcast aims to show how Ebenezer Scrooge became the miserable miser of the Charles Dickens’ classic “A Christmas Carol,” focusing on themes of redemption, mercy, grace and compassion.

From Washington Times ● Nov. 27, 2023

The Tucson Plug-in is slightly less of a fuel miser but still relatively efficient.

From Seattle Times ● Nov. 30, 2022

Apple’s ‘Spirited’ turns the oft-told tale on its head by making its miser a media manipulator, and viewing him through the perspective of the ghosts.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 18, 2022

But she loved Coraline as a miser loves money, or a dragon loves its gold.

From "Coraline" by Neil Gaiman

Jon Clinch has revived the life behind the famous ghost in a prequel that fleshes out the early relationship between the two old misers in “A Christmas Carol.”

From Washington Post ● Oct. 22, 2019

We're going going to make some pesto next season with our garden-grown basil and these nuts--the end result we will horde like gold misers.

From New York Times ● Dec. 1, 2017

How do we prepare them for a world where people are proud to be stupid misers who adhere to no moral code?

From Salon ● Jan. 28, 2017

When Geronte abruptly decides, as cranky old misers will, to leave his money to two distant relatives, Crispin dresses up like each, in turn, and portrays them as craven, insincere opportunists.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 25, 2015

The worthy physician belonged to an age when the class called misers extensively prevailed; and when those who lent out money upon interest were denominated usurers.

From Knowledge is Power: A View of the Productive Forces of Modern Society and the Results of Labor, Capital and Skill. by Charles Knight