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Scrooge-like

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Adjective
  1. 1
    Like a scrooge in being miserly, tight-fisted, and a kill-joy.

    "In 1963, there was even more of a shutdown [at Christmas]. The Western and London Midland Regions ran no trains, with the rest of the network having the "barest of skeleton services". The Daily Herald called Beeching's cuts "the most scrooge-like... in railway history"."

Etymology

From scrooge + -like.

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