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
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
But besides the miserliness that Venmo encourages, and the social panopticon it engenders, the app is good for one wholly pure thing: succinct humor.
From Slate ● Jul. 23, 2018
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
