miserliness

[ UK /mˈa‍ɪzəlinəs/ ]
NOUN
  1. total lack of generosity with money
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How To Use miserliness In A Sentence

  • Given the widespread existence of such demeaning conditions and the dominant corporate miserliness, why don't the wretched of this low-wage world revolt?
  • Continually, when you see others, Delight in giving without miserliness.
  • The party also earned a damaging reputation for miserliness by cutting pensions and salaries and fostering economic alarmism.
  • As long as I had known him he was, for reasons of pure miserliness, dishonest as an officer, often niggardly in a dirty way, and he owes even today the cash he borrowed from many privates.
  • This combination of cynicism and miserliness does not augur well for the success of the programme.
  • Seattle Post-Intelligencer article reported that, due to the "miserliness" of Clark County, defense lawyers handling three out of five of Clark County's death-penalty cases had been either disbarred or arrested. Washblog - Front Page
  • So social, at times I wonder if they really understand the inherent loneliness -- even miserliness -- of the profession they appear to have chosen. Melanie Benjamin: Just Say No to Everyone But the Voices in Your Head
  • He never has sudden moods of miserliness.
  • It appropriates poverty funds with miserliness and grudging reluctance. Richard (RJ) Eskow: Today's Visionary, Not Yesterday's Celebrity: Martin Luther King, Jr.'s Words With Contemporary Images
  • However, Pat does not recognize how similar she is to her father and persists in blaming the failure of the relationship to sustain her on his coldness, and miserliness.
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