| Scrooge is a hard, cold miser who spends his days counting his profits and wishing the world would leave him alone. |
| Critics and journalists have often portrayed him as a miser or as an old lecher. |
| The miser is at times depicted as an unhappy man bringing misery not only to himself but also to others. |
| It is a myth that living like a miser will see you end up with a stash of gold. |
| This looked and sounded like a Chancellor who was holding on to the Treasury windfalls like a miser hoarding his coins. |
| He is a power-hungry miser, a greedy manipulator of people, who robs the inhabitants of the town of which he is mayor. |
