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Scrooge

noun as in skinflint

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"There's a few out there who think I'm a bit of a scrooge but my friends think it's quite a good idea," she said.

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"I wasn’t very much fun to be around. I was kind of a scrooge," he said.

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“I wasn’t very much fun to be around. I was kind of a scrooge,” he said.

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I know we're starved for sports, and maybe I'm being a scrooge, but I cannot imagine this has any effect beyond making us even more acutely aware of what we can't see.

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It’s not the only such hostile architecture developed by scrooges in recent years.

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