(a.) Like a miser; very covetous; sordid; niggardly.
Example Sentences:
(1) He told strikers at St Thomas’ hospital, London: “By taking action on such a miserable morning you are sending a strong message that decent men and women in the jewel of our civilisation are not prepared to be treated as second-class citizens any more.
(2) "It's always been done in a really miserable way in the past, but this is fresh and new.
(3) Supporting a Sunderland side who had last won a home Premier League game back in January, when Stoke City were narrowly defeated, is not a pursuit for the faint-hearted but this was turning into the equivalent of the sudden dawning of a gloriously hot sunny day amid a miserable, cold, wet summer.
(4) People like Hugo forgot how truly miserable Paris had been for ordinary Parisians.” Out of a job and persona non grata in Paris, Haussmann spent six months in Italy to lift his spirits.
(5) But my characters are either really strong, miserable or tortured."
(6) A full marching band moved through a sea of umbrellas, playing the Les Miserables song Do You Hear the People Sing.
(7) Similarly at world level, it considers the struggles and efforts by the miserable and oppressed nations for achievement of their legitimate rights and independence as their due rights, because people have the right to liberate their countries from colonialism and obtain their rights.
(8) My first marriage is the only thing I've ever failed at and I failed miserably."
(9) If after 10 years the Californian law is working well: that’s to say it is not being used against the weak and miserable as a cheaper alternative to proper palliative care, there will be no reason not to extend it here.
(10) Low point: "When a show I directed, Paul Simon's The Capeman, failed miserably."
(11) The smile, so noticeably absent during a miserable final season at his boyhood club, was back.
(12) His father died when Giulio was two, and the family survived on his mother's miserly widow's pension.
(13) Roberto Firmino and Adam Lallana established a comfortable advantage for the home side, only for Adam Johnson’s free-kick, and Simon Mignolet’s weak attempt to stop it, plus Defoe’s clinical late strike to extend Liverpool’s miserable run to five points out of 18 in 2016.
(14) This drubbing exposed not only the team's inadequacy on the day in the face of a rampant United side who sensed miserable resistance almost from the kick-off, but also Arsène Wenger's tepid commitment to the FA Cup, whatever his ready-made complaints of depleted resources before and after.
(15) "He truly had such a miserable time on the first day or two of the shoot.
(16) Fair pay, not benefits or subsidies to miserly employers, brought Labour into being – so why is the party in danger of letting this strong emblematic policy slip away?
(17) On the positive side, it will very soon overtake Les Miserables (£40.8m) to become the second-biggest 2013 release, behind only Despicable Me 2 (£47.4m).
(18) Smoldering resentment, chronic anger, self-centeredness, vindictiveness, and a constant feeling of being abused ultimately produce a miserable human being who, as well as being alienated from self, alienates those in the interpersonal sphere.
(19) As soon as you live in the place, it becomes grey and miserable – as do the people.
(20) The good thing about the above is the equal-opportunities nature of it: almost everyone is made to feel inadequate or miserable.
Scrooge
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) Updated at 1.50pm GMT 12.56pm GMT Economists react: did Osborne play Scrooge or Santa?
(2) But he added: “Whilst it is being rolled out, we must have the data to allow us to hold the DWP [Department for Work and Pensions] to account and suggest where improvements can be made.” Scrooge is at large on our hungry streets | Letters Read more The committee said it had been difficult to hold the department to account on benefit delays because of a lack of available data on the timeliness and accuracy of benefits for some disabled people and short-term benefit advance applications.
(3) In a move condemned by campaigners as Scrooge-like behaviour, Betfred, which has almost 1,400 betting shops in the nation's high streets, proposes grading the performance of staff with a "higher weighting" given to the profits their shops make from fixed-odds betting terminals (FOBTs) – machines that critics say lead to crime and the regulator warns present a "high inherent money-laundering risk".
(4) The BBC will also showcase Dickensian, a new series using Scrooge, Fagin and Miss Havisham, as well as an adaptation of the bestselling crime novel of all time, Agatha Christie’s And Then There Were None, starring Poldark actor Aidan Turner.
(5) Is Labour not letting us all down by not hounding Osborne, demanding details, making it plain that if the turkeys do vote for this Christmas, it will be the type that even Scrooge would disown?
(6) Scrooge, but Uncle Ebenezer after the Third Ghost's visit, Mother Teresa after her second breakfast gin, Dorian Gray on Botox.
(7) If King, an apostle of non-violence and advocate for the poorest of the poor, were alive today, what would he make of President Obama's careless-with-life drone assassinations, his bullying of journalists and whistleblowers, his assent to slashing Social Security via his Scrooge-like "deficit commission"?
(8) In the first year, we painted a picture of a crisis in a barren desert: Scrooge McDuck’s egg timer isn’t working, no one can find the red sand – oil – and the camels have long since left.
(9) It was tries that England needed and France, the Scrooges of the tournament, suddenly found joy in giving them – Anthony Watson finished a counterattack sparked by Youngs’ 40m break before the scrum-half, after Ford’s clearance had been charged down by Gaël Fickou, took a quick throw to Joseph, even though the centre was standing behind his own line.
(10) Ask the Danes, and they will tell you that the Norwegians are the most insular and xenophobic of all the Scandinavians, and it is true that since they came into a bit of money in the 1970s the Norwegians have become increasingly Scrooge-like, hoarding their gold, fearful of outsiders.
(11) These historic challenges to a system are like the visits to Ebenezer Scrooge in Dickens' A Christmas Carol – they are the times when organizations have to confront the Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come.
(12) Although Van Rompuy is pushing for a smaller budget increase than originally suggested, his draft proposal is still tens of billions of euros higher than the sums acceptable to the likes of Britain – who has been playing the traditional role of a trouble-making Scrooge.
(13) Today's Guardian, for example, informs us that Ebenezeer Scrooge is our favourite Dickensian character .
(14) For the government, Clarke argues that to ignore the potential economic gains "in favour of blowing up a controversy around one small part of the negotiations, known as investor protection, seems to me positively Scrooge-like".
(15) For now, though, Mr Osborne has played Scrooge rather than Santa and left the onus squarely on the MPC to keep the economic recovery going.
(16) I have never had Monbiot down as an ungenerous character, but to ignore all of this in favour of blowing up a controversy around one small part of the negotiations, known as investor protection, seems to me positively Scrooge-like.
(17) Looked at with a Scrooge-like economist’s hat on (gift idea for an accountant!
(18) Scrooge is at large during our festival of giving and receiving; we are him and he is all of us.
(19) Campaigners are to raise the spectre of Scrooge and the “ghost of Christmas present” at Associated British Food’s annual shareholder meeting on Friday over low-paid staff at its Primark chain.
(20) One of the most endearing characters in English literature is Tiny Tim, the crippled son of Ebenezer Scrooge's clerk, Bob Cratchit.