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

All I’m asking is for you to stop making jokes about my miserliness or suggesting that I’m trying to punish my relatives by setting boundaries with them.

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

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