scroogesque
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
23
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
1
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Resembling or characteristic of Ebenezer Scrooge; bad-tempered, selfish and miserly.
Example Sentences
- "The Tories have been positively Scroogesque with our accumulated billions."
- "To me, growing increasingly Scroogesque, each day is a Winterreise, without the snow, the linden tree, the cold (though a chute or two is pneumonia-drafty) or the weather-vane."
- "I mean three years ago in this very supplement of your newspaper some fool actually wrote an article called ‘How to Ruin Your Child’s Christmas’. That kind of stuff gets back to me and it hurts. I mean, we can do without that sort of Scroogesque rubbish."
- "Many gardeners are lukewarm toward poinsettias. The main trouble with them is they stay in bloom till March, but I suppose it’s Scroogesque to complain of a pot plant that behaves so well."
- "The great guru X Moore, former lead singer of Trotskyist skinhead band The Redskins, took a less Scroogesque view. He claimed that Xmas is but a foretaste of the coming socialist millennium[…]"
- "To the Scroogesque reference to a Christmas party which I attended, along with City staff, I must clear up the events that actually took place."
Etymology
From Scrooge + -esque.
Word Breakdown
Inflected Forms
more Scroogesque (comparative)
most Scroogesque (superlative)