miserly
adjective
of, like, or befitting a miser; penurious; stingy.
miserliness
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a word derived from
miserly.
Example Sentences
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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
In all the versions of the story, there is resistance, skepticism, fear, miserliness, scarcity or a suspicion that must first be conquered.
From New York Times ● Dec. 15, 2021
Should I confront my siblings and tell them how I feel about their miserliness toward my children in relation to my generosity to theirs?
From Slate ● Mar. 29, 2018
I realized that I had misremembered Scrooge as gleeful in his miserliness, a human version of Scrooge McDuck, whose exuberance is eternally preserved in the cultural imagination by the image of the “money dive.”
From The New Yorker ● Dec. 24, 2015
Now I’m embarrassed, and beyond that overwhelmed to discover a covert stream of generosity running counter to the dominant corporate miserliness.
From "Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America" by Barbara Ehrenreich
