“Oh! But he was a tight-fisted hand at the grindstone, Scrooge! a squeezing, wrenching, grasping, scraping, clutching, covetous old sinner.” — Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol in Prose, Being a Ghost-Story of Christmas   I have always have felt that “sinner” is the wrong word here and have mentioned this now and then to … Continue reading the wrong word?