miserly

How To Use miserly In A Sentence

• He was more miserly with titles than any sovereign since Elizabeth I - ensuring, for example, that dukedoms were reserved for the royal family alone.
• We may very well find that we are contributing, through this niggardly, miserly provision, to further examples of leaky buildings.
• Odds on a Labour win are currently a miserly 1-14.
• 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.