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The reader gains a negative impression of Scrooge: "But he was a tight-fisted hand at the grindstone, Scrooge! a squeezing, wrenching, grasping, scraping, clutching, covetous, old sinner!" ...

On James "Jemmy" Wood's death, people lined the streets of Gloucester to boo and throw stones at his coffin Charles Dickens' Scrooge may ... him as the "covetous, old sinner" in A Christmas ...

“He was a tight-fisted hand at the grindstone, Scrooge – a squeezing, grasping, covetous, old sinner!” On Christmas Eve, Ebenezer Scrooge is warned by the ghost of his late partner, Jacob ...

Charles Dickens, in the most famous of his 19th-century morality tales, introduced us to the “squeezing, wrenching, grasping, scraping, clutching, covetous, old sinner” Ebenezer Scrooge.