Scrooge Definition

skro͝oj
noun
A hardhearted, miserly misanthrope.
Webster's New World
Synonyms:
pronoun
The fictional character Ebenezer Scrooge of Dickens's A Christmas Carol.
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Noun

Singular:
Scrooge
Plural:
scrooges

Origin of Scrooge

  • After Ebenezer Scrooge , miserly protagonist of A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • From the character Ebenezer Scrooge in the Charles Dickens novel, A Christmas Carol.

    From Wiktionary

Scrooge Sentence Examples

  • You 've lost that Loving Feeling Jenny Dowling, alias Scrooge Has Christmas lost its sparkle for you?

  • In Scrooge's vision of Tiny Tim's death, Bob remarks on how kind Scrooge's nephew was to him.

  • In the Dickens novel, the Ghost of Christmas Past opens Scrooge's heart to the familiar, warm memories he had of the people he loved.

  • Scrooge is overcome by remorse, and vows to reform and change his life.

  • The ghost then broke Scrooge's heart by showing him how his own negative actions affected those people that he loved.

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