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- noun Plural form of
scrooge .
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Examples
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It's good to hear a Republican call these scrooges out for the greedy, selfish, self-centered, "I got mine, and I don't give a rat's behind about anybody else" PIGS that they really are.
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These are obviously the scrooges who are waiting for HD prices to fall below $500.
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Among the 9 artists that have kept their promise are Damien Hirst, Antony Gormley, and now David Hockney (sounds like a subtle hint to the other 14 scrooges to come good with some art).
April 2008 2008
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Florence TimesDaily – In defense of scrooges everywhere
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We attacked the skinflints and scrooges with all the zeal of Crusaders, certain that ours was a holy venture.
Learning to Die in Miami Carlos Eire 2010
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And for all those scrooges who say 'why don't they just go to the library?'
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Getting theirs, even if it means putting the scrooges to the rest of us, to you and me.
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Wherever these two scrooges show their faces, it's quite like Ebenezer himself showing up to make a house call.
Epochal Transformation Accelerates as Global Financial Matrix Disintegrates 2008
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It's scrooges like you who assert that people who belive differently from you don't deserve a day off, nor have something special worth celebrating.
A Bit of GOOD News ... Steve Hulett 2008
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Welfare has pretty much dropped off the political radar, and with it the rhetoric of “handouts for welfare queens” and “scrooges plotting to abandon the poor.”
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