miserliness

Example Sentences

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Just last Wednesday, I posted a column reporting how our richest corporations, through sheer miserliness and profit-seeking, left millions of Americans vulnerable to technological attacks on their privacy and welfare.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 23, 2024

“It’s a kind of meanness and miserliness on the part of these prosperous countries that say, we don’t want these people,” he said.

From New York Times • Oct. 7, 2021

If that’s his idea of miserliness, I’m a little scared to imagine what he thinks generosity looks like.

From Slate • May 23, 2019

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

The others made fun of what they believed was his miserliness, but he could not eat it or throw it away, until finally, in the outhouse, he let it fall into the earth’s stinking hole.

From "Song of Solomon" by Toni Morrison