miserly

How To Use miserly In A Sentence

• It's something else again to start trying to prevent other men buying flowers for their beloveds, accusing them of not really being in love if they buy them flowers, and trying to make them as miserly as I am.
• We may very well find that we are contributing, through this niggardly, miserly provision, to further examples of leaky buildings.
• A miserly father makes a prodigal son. 
• Here, we are given neither palm tree nor emerald star, which seems miserly. Times, Sunday Times
• On the other hand, his wife was a miserly woman who had no interest in feeding hungry street beggars.
• And the son has seen and known all this — he is a ruined man, and his fear has taught him to knock ambition and passion headforemost from his bosom's throne; humbled by poverty he takes to money-making, and by mean and miserly savings and hard work gets The Republic by Plato ; translated by Benjamin Jowett
• So, for a start, be miserly about tomato paste in meat sauces for pasta.
• Old men, conscious that they are about to leave the good things of the world, are grasping and miserly.
• The real tragedy was that only a miserly 1,500 or so turned out to watch the game, continuing recent downward trends here on a damp and blustery afternoon.
• We cannot go on literally banking on their kindness and humanity and caring abilities in order to underwrite our economic imperatives, while requiring them to set aside their own emotional needs in return for a miserly sum.