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a mean grasping person who is usually stingy with money
the miser liked to sit and play with his money
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Recent Examples of miser
Julia Soares, an assistant professor of cognitive science at Mississippi State University, said this tendency aligns with the decades-old social science concept of the cognitive miser.
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Celia Ford, Vox, 10 Mar. 2025
This ahead-of-its-time 1988 film stars Bill Murray as Frank Cross, a TV executive and self-seeking miser who receives a wake-up call from the ghosts of Christmas Past (David Johansen), Present (Carol Kane) and Future (Robert Hammond) to help straighten his mean spirit.
—Skyler Caruso, People.com, 19 Dec. 2024
For a more tuneful version of the Dickens tale, there’s this 1970 musical starring Albert Finney as the eponymous miser.
—Keith Phipps, Vulture, 5 Dec. 2024
The Bay Area’s relationship with the infamous miser Scrooge is undergoing some shifts.
—David John Chávez, The Mercury News, 2 Dec. 2024
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Celia Ford, Vox, 10 Mar. 2025
This ahead-of-its-time 1988 film stars Bill Murray as Frank Cross, a TV executive and self-seeking miser who receives a wake-up call from the ghosts of Christmas Past (David Johansen), Present (Carol Kane) and Future (Robert Hammond) to help straighten his mean spirit.
—Skyler Caruso, People.com, 19 Dec. 2024
For a more tuneful version of the Dickens tale, there’s this 1970 musical starring Albert Finney as the eponymous miser.
—Keith Phipps, Vulture, 5 Dec. 2024
The Bay Area’s relationship with the infamous miser Scrooge is undergoing some shifts.
—David John Chávez, The Mercury News, 2 Dec. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for miser
Noun
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The Pat McAfee Show is the purest manifestation of the skinflint era of ESPN.—
Corbin Smith,
Rolling Stone,
13 Jan. 2024
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So is the criticism not about his being a skinflint, but something else annoying—a fussbudget, a gadfly?—
A.E. Stallings,
The New York Review of Books,
17 Aug. 2023
Noun
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Your customers can be tightwads or spendthrifts, and your products may be oriented to one or the other.—
Roger Dooley,
Forbes,
3 Mar. 2025
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But come Sunday, the tightwad could still walk away with the trophy.—
Jarrett Bell,
USA TODAY,
12 Feb. 2022
Noun
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Some people associate a frugal spender with a narrow-minded person who is a tightwad, a cheapskate, a penny-pincher, and worse of all an outright scrooge.—
Lance Eliot,
Forbes,
18 Jan. 2025
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The hottest gift this holiday season may be the Disney Duo Bundle — especially among the cheapskates in your life.—
Tony Maglio,
IndieWire,
27 Nov. 2024
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“Miser.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/miser. Accessed 18 May. 2025.
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