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scrooge-like

scrooge-like adjective: like a scrooge in being miserly, tight-fisted, and a kill-joy.

Adjective

scrooge-like (comparative more scrooge-like, superlative most scrooge-like)

  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".2023 December 27, David Turner, “Silent lines...”, in RAIL, number 999, page 30

Forms of scrooge-like

comparativemore scrooge-like
superlativemost scrooge-like
alternative formScrooge-like

Origin of scrooge-like

From scrooge + -like.

Questions about scrooge-like

What does scrooge-like mean?
Scrooge-like means like a scrooge in being miserly, tight-fisted, and a kill-joy.
What part of speech is scrooge-like?
Scrooge-like is an adjective.

Words near scrooge-like in the dictionary

  1. scrooge
  2. Scrooge McDuck
  3. Scrooge McDucked
  4. Scrooge McDucking
  5. Scrooge McDucks
  6. scrooge-like
  7. Scroogean
  8. scrooged
  9. Scroogelike
  10. scrooges
  11. Scroogesque

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