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a mean grasping person who is usually stingy with money
the miser liked to sit and play with his money
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Linda Gefen, Boca Raton Punishing the homeless At the Dec. 19 Fort Lauderdale City Commission meeting, Commissioner Steven Glassman played the role of the cold-hearted, nasty miser Ebenezer Scrooge with aplomb.
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Sun Sentinel Editorial Board, Sun Sentinel, 3 Jan. 2024
Altruists seek to understand how their actions will affect others—while willful ignorance can free people to act selfishly
By Linh Vu & Margarita Leib
In the Charles Dickens story A Christmas Carol, the wealthy miser Ebenezer Scrooge has a magical, life-changing epiphany.
—Linh Vu, Scientific American, 11 Dec. 2023
The desire to defend him—the urge, in other words, to identify with him—even comes down to the idea of his being a miser.
—A.e. Stallings, The New York Review of Books, 17 Aug. 2023
To me this is a silly question asked by old quivering misers and answered with a roaring NO by their doom-gurus.
—Clem Chambers, Forbes, 16 Mar. 2023
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Sun Sentinel Editorial Board, Sun Sentinel, 3 Jan. 2024
Altruists seek to understand how their actions will affect others—while willful ignorance can free people to act selfishly
By Linh Vu & Margarita Leib
In the Charles Dickens story A Christmas Carol, the wealthy miser Ebenezer Scrooge has a magical, life-changing epiphany.
—Linh Vu, Scientific American, 11 Dec. 2023
The desire to defend him—the urge, in other words, to identify with him—even comes down to the idea of his being a miser.
—A.e. Stallings, The New York Review of Books, 17 Aug. 2023
To me this is a silly question asked by old quivering misers and answered with a roaring NO by their doom-gurus.
—Clem Chambers, Forbes, 16 Mar. 2023
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for miser
Noun
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The Pat McAfee Show is the purest manifestation of the skinflint era of ESPN.Corbin Smith, Rolling Stone, 13 Jan. 2024
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So is the criticism not about his being a skinflint, but something else annoying—a fussbudget, a gadfly?A.E. Stallings, The New York Review of Books, 17 Aug. 2023
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But come Sunday, the tightwad could still walk away with the trophy.Jarrett Bell, USA TODAY, 12 Feb. 2022
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Valentine’s Day plus being too much of a tightwad to buy a gift.Erika W. Smith, refinery29.com, 5 Feb. 2020
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The best choice for total cheapskates Maybe listening to a football game isn’t ideal.Shira Ovide, Washington Post, 9 Feb. 2024
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The company explained that the system, which is being tested in random locations around the U.S. and Canada, is intended to create incentives against cheapskates.Emily Heil, Washington Post, 3 Nov. 2023
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“Miser.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/miser. Accessed 21 Nov. 2024.
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