How to Use miser in a Sentence

miser

noun
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  • The key is, like the miser, to be the first out of the cab and the last into the pub.
    — Clem Chambers, Forbes, 10 Nov. 2021
  • The miser Scrooge meets three spirits on Christmas Eve.
    — Chris Foran, jsonline.com, 25 Nov. 2019
  • Dickens’ timeless holiday tale of a miser and three ghosts, on now through Jan. 1.
    — Lauren Daley, BostonGlobe.com, 22 Dec. 2022
  • As Atlanta audiences revisit the story of the miser who learned to keep Christmas best of all, Bell will be doing the same thing.
    — Bo Emerson, ajc, 9 Nov. 2021
  • Becky thought of herself as one of those folktale misers, never letting a person slip out of her life.
    — Adam Davidson, The New Yorker, 9 Jan. 2017
  • Tom Mula's play retells the Scrooge story through his deceased partner Marley, who turns out to have arranged the spirits who bring about the miser's change of heart.
    — Jim Higgins, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 5 Nov. 2020
  • But what irresponsible, immoral miser cares about the mortgage while the house is still burning?
    — Letter Writers, Twin Cities, 29 Sep. 2019
  • The Muppet characters tell their version of the classic tale of an old and bitter miser’s redemption on Christmas Eve.
    — Ben Flanagan | [email protected], al, 5 Dec. 2022
  • There are many iterations of Charles Dickens’ classic story about a rich old miser frightened into the spirit of Christmas by a number of ghosts.
    — Aimée Lutkin, ELLE, 30 Nov. 2022
  • Sam Gregory reprises his role as the play’s curmudgeonly miser.
    — Dylan Owens, The Know, 3 Apr. 2017
  • Abele certainly is resolved to avoid looming cuts in social services and is trying his best to convince the public the County Board is filled with Scrooge-like misers for approving them in the first place.
    — Don Behm, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 13 Dec. 2017
  • Michael Caine plays the miser Ebenezer Scrooge in this family-friendly and heart-felt 1992 adaptation of Dickens’ holiday fable.
    — Los Angeles Times, 16 Dec. 2021
  • The British author’s novella about a selfish and stingy miser who becomes woke in Victorian England was an instant holiday hit when published in 1843.
    — Los Angeles Times, Anchorage Daily News, 24 Dec. 2022
  • The deceased was reportedly a bullying miser and blackmailer, and many had motive and opportunity to do him in.
    — Misha Berson, The Seattle Times, 2 June 2017
  • Charles Dickens portrayed the fictional miser as someone who pursued profit above all, and Gramm acknowledges that might have denied ol’ Ebenezer a full and happy personal life.
    — Dallas News, 28 Dec. 2022
  • Fuel misers might be better served by the smooth and powerful 330e plug-in hybrid’s turbocharged four-cylinder and electric-motor combination.
    — Car and Driver, 1 Nov. 2017
  • Universal credit was conceived in the late 2000s as a fairly generous scheme that would establish the Tories as champions of the deserving poor, rather than the misers many working-class voters believed them to be.
    — The Economist, 31 May 2018
  • About half the roster made only occasional contributions, like a guilty miser chipping into the Salvation Army bucket.
    — Bill Livingston, cleveland.com, 29 Apr. 2018
  • Whitford gives the famous miser a richly layered and complex shading, giving him a wry and knowing sensibility even in his most curmudgeonly moments.
    — Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 2 Dec. 2021
  • Scottish actor Alastair Sim gives one of the screen’s great performances as Ebeneezer Scrooge, revealing from the start the emotional vulnerability beneath the old miser’s cynical shell.
    — Arthur Herman, National Review, 23 Dec. 2017
  • Charles Dickens’ classic holiday tale of ghosts, a miser named Scrooge and the possibility of redemption, re-imagined in a Victorian Baltimore setting.
    — Chris Kaltenbach, baltimoresun.com, 1 Dec. 2019
  • Despite his incredible wealth, the family patriarch was a infamous miser, who kept his fortune in a charitable trust to avoid taxes, but gave little if anything to charity.
    — Mike Miller, PEOPLE.com, 25 Dec. 2017

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