miserliness
Example Sentences
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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
In all the versions of the story, there is resistance, skepticism, fear, miserliness, scarcity or a suspicion that must first be conquered.
From New York Times ● Dec. 15, 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
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
Now I’m embarrassed, and beyond that overwhelmed to discover a covert stream of generosity running counter to the dominant corporate miserliness.
From "Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America" by Barbara Ehrenreich
