Scrooge-like

Investors seemed equally undeterred by the chances of a Scrooge-like Christmas as they scooped up options in videogame and entertainment software retailer GameStop.

Game Fans Put Their Cash on an Electronic Arts Jump Brendan Conway 2010

Steve Webb, one of the several Liberal Democrat ministers who appear to be almost relishing the cuts, told us that "cold weather payments have been frozen", which sounded wonderfully Scrooge-like, though it turned out that he was criticising the last Labour government rather than making a promise on behalf of his own.

Work and pensions cuts take inspiration from Dickens Simon Hoggart 2010

In an attempt to impress his future father-in-law, Jimmy brought the Scrooge-like funeral-home owner bone-dry standup Larry Miller in for a Christmas Eve tour of the office.

Cheers & Jeers: NCIS' Very Jimmy Christmas 2011

A page from a rare pulp, according to Jess Nevins apparently in the hands of a Scrooge-like miserly hoarder who won't let it be copied.

Free Science Fiction, Fantasy, Horror: The Gorilla of the Gasbags 1 - Gil Brewer Blue Tyson 2010

Harold Meyerson has promoted me from Scrooge-like to Kevorkianesque.

On and on and on Wisconsin 2011

Jim Carrey plays the workaholic dad who has a Scrooge-like epiphany thanks to a gift of six penguins that arrive courtesy of his late father.

This week's new films 2011

Best Buy reversed its Scrooge-like declaration in his case and gave him the bundle for the original advertised price of $199.

Best Buy Apologizes For Web Sales Blunder Miguel Bustillo 2011

Thus to the most Scrooge-like of all questions: Is there a constitutional issue here?

Forced Merriment: The True Spirit of Christmas Christopher Hitchens 2011

After their team's victory, so many revelers clogged the streets that I had to walk the five and a half kilometers home, grumbling Scrooge-like about irrational exuberance and the madness of crowds.

Football, Fandom and Fantasista Francis X. Rocca in Rome 2011

A page from a rare pulp, according to Jess Nevins apparently in the hands of a Scrooge-like miserly hoarder who won't let it be copied.

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