miserly

I decided not to be miserly for once and bought first-class tickets to be sure of a seat.
‘Stupid Enough to Pay’: Tim Parks’s Italian Rail Adventures|Tim Parks|June 23, 2013|DAILY BEAST
Ask her to bear corn or pasture flocks and she will be miserly and grudging.
Robert Elsmere|Mrs. Humphry Ward
He was not miserly, but his besetting evil was the love of accumulating money—the lever that had made him thoroughly unscrupulous.
In Friendship's Guise|Wm. Murray Graydon
The "miserly agriculturist," is the accurate and forcible expression of Virgil.
The Bird|Jules Michelet

The miserly habit of her husband seemed to have suddenly fallen on her like a mantle.
Mercy Philbrick's Choice|Helen Hunt Jackson
The miserly miller considered Ruth Fielding a liability; she proved herself in time to be an asset.
Ruth Fielding Homeward Bound|Alice B. Emerson

British Dictionary definitions for miserly

miserly

/ (ˈmaɪzəlɪ) /

adjective

of or resembling a miser; avaricious

Derived Forms

miserliness, noun

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