How To Use Miserliness In A Sentence
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Given the widespread existence of such demeaning conditions and the dominant corporate miserliness, why don't the wretched of this low-wage world revolt?
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Continually, when you see others, Delight in giving without miserliness.
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The party also earned a damaging reputation for miserliness by cutting pensions and salaries and fostering economic alarmism.
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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.
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This combination of cynicism and miserliness does not augur well for the success of the programme.
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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.
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So social, at times I wonder if they really understand the inherent loneliness -- even miserliness -- of the profession they appear to have chosen.
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He never has sudden moods of miserliness.
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It appropriates poverty funds with miserliness and grudging reluctance.
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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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In some churches, the miserliness rate is even higher.
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Painfully, we learned of his racism, his supposed miserliness and misogyny, the juggling of his women, the porn, the booze, the wanking.
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The result is ongoing competition and conflict and the valorization of generosity and condemnation of miserliness and envy.
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Like Gertrude, whose behaviour provides too insubstantial a cause for Hamlet's disgust, Cherie's impecunious mother makes an inadequate pretext for her affluent daughter's lifelong miserliness and greed.
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As a planet, we need to re-valuate the consumerist view that "more is better," and how that view creates miserliness, jealousy, and inequality.
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The best anecdotes always involved the camera persons, their miserliness, their profligacy with the company's money ( "To hire of camel"), their thick-skinned insouciance on matters of taste or tact.
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He was known for his extreme miserliness.
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And of course, as humans we could experience the same torment, because of our own patterns of greed and miserliness.
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Thus, miserliness is more than the English word stinginess.
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What explains this institutional miserliness at the very top of Britain's wealth tree?
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Miserliness and wastefulness are equally deplored in Buddhism as two degenerate extremes.
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The return of Andy Reid, who delighted the Trent End during dark days under Joe Kinnear, gives McClaren an old-fashioned playmaker with a sublime range of passing but sadly Forest jettisoned the ideal striker to exploit Reid's creative gifts, Norwich's prolific Grant Holt, in a wanton act of miserliness three years ago.
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However, because of the relative miserliness of the prizes involved in those days, the American quiz show scandals pale into insignificance next to this one.
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It is the very depth of his miserliness which draws us all, young and old, into the story.
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The government's miserliness was quickly exposed by donations from ordinary citizens.
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Therefore, you should not worry that he will be held accountable for miserliness or whatever.
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A large, expensive fridge in a wealthy home will be excused smoked salmon and costly cheeses, but if no small luxuries are evident is it a case of miserliness?
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To combat miserliness, for example, you would train yourself to practice generosity for only a day or a week at a time.
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Around him in his lifetime grew legends of wealth, miserliness, misogyny, and efficiency, some of which had a basis in truth.
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He notes that he looked "to those twelve Caesars so mistreated by Suetonius," in the hope of emulating the best of each: "the clear-sightedness of Tiberius, without his harshness; the learning of Claudius without his weakness; Nero's taste for the arts, but stripped of all foolish vanity; the kindness of Titus, stopping short of his sentimentality; Vespasian's thrift, but not his absurd miserliness.
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It also clearly illuminates where the line is, and why calling a miserly person a "Jew" is an insult (because the insinuation of miserliness is derogatory) whereas saying Asians like rice is not (because there's no derogatory insinuation).
"We, in former times, constantly made jokes about different races."
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Scrooge has been immortalised in the English language as the epitome of miserliness and meanness of spirit.
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The presence of a collector at the church-gate annoys them because it's another reminder of their miserliness.
