He is a power-hungry miser, a greedy manipulator of people, who robs the inhabitants of the town of which he is mayor. |
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It is a myth that living like a miser will see you end up with a stash of gold. |
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Critics and journalists have often portrayed him as a miser or as an old lecher. |
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Scrooge is a hard, cold miser who spends his days counting his profits and wishing the world would leave him alone. |
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This looked and sounded like a Chancellor who was holding on to the Treasury windfalls like a miser hoarding his coins. |
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The miser is at times depicted as an unhappy man bringing misery not only to himself but also to others. |
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The bureau pores over its data like a miser in his cave with his treasure. |
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But you do not have to be a coin-collector or a miser to enjoy the British Museum's newly refurbished money gallery. |
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I'm all for being a miser, but not if it makes you miserable. |
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China is in the odd position of being cast as both miser and wanton. Even an extravagance like Kangbashi is best understood as an attempt to soak up saving. |
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If you have ever been accused of getting up on the wrong side of the bed because, frankly, you are a miserable, caffeine-starved miser in the morning, then that person may be onto something, according to a new study. |
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The next stanza, Quid sum miser, develops a short variation on the Dies irae melody, a subtle transformation of timbres, due to the unusual match of the English horn, strings and solo tenor. |
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Yes, call me a Stingy Scrooge because in that situation, I was being a Miser to the extreme. |
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