miserly

So it was not miserliness; it was just a peculiarity, a curious attention to a trifling detail.

Their tartness and strictness and miserliness had made the life of the girls in the school uncomfortable for some time.

Noto used to get reprimands from Bhavani for his natural miserliness in these items of future expenditure.

There were in the Professor's nature no sympathies that enabled him even to comprehend miserliness in any degree.