Possible Clues:

• Preacher's spoken, boring Scrooge
• Preacher's spoken with endless distress around
• Sort of preacher to want more liars converted
• Puritanical sort of curmudgeon needing internal examination?
• Preacher as mean person getting spoken about? The opposite
• Pathetic liar's more a preacher
• Ethicist said to bore Scrooge
• Ethical authority has spoken, interrupting someone mean
• Mean type occupied by exam, sanctimonious sort
• Person who speaks or writes on ethics