miser
noun
a person who lives in wretched circumstances in order to save and hoard money.
misers
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pluralof miser.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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Jon Clinch has revived the life behind the famous ghost in a prequel that fleshes out the early relationship between the two old misers in “A Christmas Carol.”
From Washington Post ● Oct. 22, 2019
How do we prepare them for a world where people are proud to be stupid misers who adhere to no moral code?
From Salon ● Jan. 28, 2017
When Geronte abruptly decides, as cranky old misers will, to leave his money to two distant relatives, Crispin dresses up like each, in turn, and portrays them as craven, insincere opportunists.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 25, 2015
Bellow observed that the Soviet leader’s comic style seemed to have been adapted from the “provincial autocrats, creeps, misers, officials, gluttons, gamblers and drunkards” in Gogol’s “Dead Souls.”
From New York Times ● Mar. 23, 2015
Of course we all have a contempt for misers, but all covetous men are not misers.
From The Overcoming Life and Other Sermons by Moody, Dwight Lyman
