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- adjective Like Ebenezer Scrooge;
bad-tempered ,selfish andmiserly .
Etymologies
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Examples
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It may also be - this would be sad but all too credible - that officials and lawyers have been captured by institutional departmental views a wide-eyed pro-rights view from Minijust, and a Scroogelike anti-rights grumpiness from Home Office and that legal advice is being too influenced by them.
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It may also be - this would be sad but all too credible - that officials and lawyers have been captured by institutional departmental views a wide-eyed pro-rights view from Minijust, and a Scroogelike anti-rights grumpiness from Home Office and that legal advice is being too influenced by them.
Archive 2008-11-01 2008
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Sorry this early in the New Year to sound so Scroogelike, but I wasn't greatly cheered either by "The Invisible Man."
NYT > Home Page By MATT WOLF 2011
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It’s been all too easy for me in years past to solve the frustration with a simple, Scroogelike answer: None.
Charity Gift Guide 2007
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