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To establish this miserliness of spirit, the present day scenes start with a Brooklyn traffic jam caused by an escaped sauropod laying collapsed and dying on the side of the road.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 30, 2025

“It’s a kind of meanness and miserliness on the part of these prosperous countries that say, we don’t want these people,” he said.

From New York Times • Oct. 7, 2021

Some economists say that focussing on Amazon’s miserliness or on the conditions inside its warehouses obscures larger, more positive truths.

From The New Yorker • Oct. 10, 2019

But besides the miserliness that Venmo encourages, and the social panopticon it engenders, the app is good for one wholly pure thing: succinct humor.

From Slate • Jul. 23, 2018

The others made fun of what they believed was his miserliness, but he could not eat it or throw it away, until finally, in the outhouse, he let it fall into the earth’s stinking hole.

From "Song of Solomon" by Toni Morrison