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

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

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