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
Should I confront my siblings and tell them how I feel about their miserliness toward my children in relation to my generosity to theirs?
From Slate ● Mar. 29, 2018
Even when they have not been at their best thus far, they have dug out a result and their defensive miserliness bodes well.
From The Guardian ● Oct. 14, 2016
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
