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miser

[mahy-zer] / ˈmaɪ zər /


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“I’m a miser right now when it comes to what I’m spending at supermarkets,” he said.

From The Wall Street Journal Oct. 15, 2025

Pansy is such a miser that, for a moment, you wonder if she’ll be visited by three spirits.

From Los Angeles Times Jan. 9, 2025

A new four-episode podcast aims to show how Ebenezer Scrooge became the miserable miser of the Charles Dickens’ classic “A Christmas Carol,” focusing on themes of redemption, mercy, grace and compassion.

From Washington Times Nov. 27, 2023

His dad, a “mouse-like miser of a man,” makes only short visits.

From Seattle Times Jun. 26, 2023

She’d even talked her brother into coming along; he was a miser and had a lot of money.

From "Shooting Kabul" by N. H. Senzai

For one thing, people are cognitive misers and it’s more efficient to adhere to pre-existing beliefs.

From Scientific American Nov. 25, 2021

Jon Clinch has revived the life behind the famous ghost in a prequel that fleshes out the early relationship between the two old misers in “A Christmas Carol.”

From Washington Post Oct. 22, 2019

Fuel misers will choose the 20d, a 4-cylinder turbocharged diesel that the Environmental Protection Agency rates at an average of 36 miles per gallon.

From New York Times Apr. 20, 2017

How do we prepare them for a world where people are proud to be stupid misers who adhere to no moral code?

From Salon Jan. 28, 2017

Even in our true systems we go on collecting mere words, playmarks and medals, as the misers do coins; and not till late do we transmute the words into feelings, the coins into enjoyments.

From The Optimist's Good Morning by Florence Hobart Perin




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