miserly

mi·ser·ly (m

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)

adj.

Of, relating to, or characteristic of a miser; avaricious or penurious.

miser·li·ness n.

miserly [ˈmaɪzəlɪ]

adj

of or resembling a miser; avaricious

miserliness n

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Adj.

miserly - (used of persons or behavior) characterized by or indicative of lack of generosity; "a mean person"; "he left a miserly tip"

mingy, tight, mean

stingy, ungenerous - unwilling to spend; "she practices economy without being stingy"; "an ungenerous response to the appeal for funds"

miserly

adjective mean, stingy, penny-pinching (informal), parsimonious, close, near, grasping, beggarly, illiberal, avaricious, niggardly, ungenerous, covetous, penurious, tightfisted, close-fisted, tight-arsed (taboo slang), mingy (Brit. informal), tight-assed (U.S. taboo slang), snoep (S. African informal), tight as a duck's arse (taboo slang) He is miserly with both his time and his money.
generous, charitable, extravagant, prodigal, unselfish

Translations

miserly [ˈmaɪzəlɪ] ADJ

1. (= mean) [person] → mezquino, ruin, tacaño

2. (= paltry) [sum] → mísero

miserly [ˈmaɪzə^rli] adj

[person] → avare
to be miserly → être avare

(= paltry) → misérable often before n

miserly

adj → geizig; hoarding → kleinlich; offer → knauserig; a miserly £8 → miese or mickrige £ 8 (inf); to be miserly with something → mit etw geizen

miserly [ˈmaɪzəlɪ] adj → taccagno/a, avaro/a

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Of course it was not really because of that, but everything together, he began this hospital to prove, do you see, that he was not miserly about money.

Anna Karenina by Tolstoy, Leo View in context

Thou art always prating to me, Starbuck, about those miserly owners, as if the owners were my conscience.

Moby Dick LXVIII-CXXXIV by Melville, Herman View in context

Collins was not a sensible man, and the deficiency of nature had been but littleassisted by education or society; the greatest part of his life having been spent under the guidance of an illiterate and miserly father; and though he belonged to one of the universities, he had merely kept the necessary terms, without forming at it any useful acquaintance.

Pride and Prejudice by Austen, Jane View in context

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