miserly

So it was not miserliness; it was just a peculiarity, a curious attention to a trifling detail.
Mark Twain, A Biography, 1835-1910, Complete|Albert Bigelow Paine
Their tartness and strictness and miserliness had made the life of the girls in the school uncomfortable for some time.
Billie Bradley on Lighthouse Island|Janet D. Wheeler
Noto used to get reprimands from Bhavani for his natural miserliness in these items of future expenditure.
Stories from Tagore|Rabindranath Tagore
There were in the Professor's nature no sympathies that enabled him even to comprehend miserliness in any degree.
Once Aboard The Lugger|Arthur Stuart-Menteth Hutchinson

Burnet says that his miserable way of living and extreme miserliness rendered him disagreeable to everybody, even his own party.
The Works of Aphra Behn, Volume VI|Aphra Behn

British Dictionary definitions for miserly

miserly

/ (ˈmaɪzəlɪ) /

adjective

of or resembling a miser; avaricious

Derived forms of miserly

miserliness, noun

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