miserliness
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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
Some economists say that focussing on Amazon’s miserliness or on the conditions inside its warehouses obscures larger, more positive truths.
From The New Yorker ● Oct. 10, 2019
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
It seizes on and tucks away for safe-keeping the most negligible trifles, clinging to them through the years with the passionate miserliness of Molière’s Harpagon.
From The Guardian ● Oct. 15, 2016
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
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