How To Use Miserly In A Sentence
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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.
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We may very well find that we are contributing, through this niggardly, miserly provision, to further examples of leaky buildings.
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A miserly father makes a prodigal son.
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Here, we are given neither palm tree nor emerald star, which seems miserly.
Times, Sunday Times
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On the other hand, his wife was a miserly woman who had no interest in feeding hungry street beggars.
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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
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So, for a start, be miserly about tomato paste in meat sauces for pasta.
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Old men, conscious that they are about to leave the good things of the world, are grasping and miserly.
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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.
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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.
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They have also demanded a cut in the lower rates of income tax as a way of providing a subvention to the miserly wages paid by the corporations.
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Odds on a Labour win are currently a miserly 1-14.
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Most economists expect growth for the entire year to be a miserly 1%.
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Too many customers are alienated by our miserly attitude to compensation for mistakes that we made.
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Had he been a Jew, his greed, his miserly ways, his usuries, would have been stigmatized as Jewish traits, but being a devout Catholic he was spoken of as "Drentell, the financier.
Rabbi and Priest A Story
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Here he was, subject to the caprice and ill-will of a sour and miserly Senior Warden, and a cowed and at least partially "bossed" vestry -- and he, the rector, with no practical power of appeal for the enforcement of his legal contract.
Hepsey Burke
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Pale blue eyes full of miserly suspicion were set in bloodshot whites.
CHAMELEON
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he left a miserly tip
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The protesters have denounced the new payments as insufficient to cover the cost of the benefits and as miserly for a country that recently reported a budget surplus of nearly US $25 billion.
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A miserly father makes a prodigal son.
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I have restricted myself to light snacks and have been positively miserly about the amount of ketchup I put on them.
Times, Sunday Times
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It was convened to consider whether to back Kennedy's bill raising the minimum wage, from a miserly $4.25 an hour.
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Its revenues soared an average of 36% through the 1990s, but now it's heading into miserly single-digit growth.
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The USA has pledged a miserly $500 million and Canada has contributed only $100 million over three years.
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Now a miserly spirit holds us in his tight and leathery grip.
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When you feel that everyone at the office has noticed your miserly and cheap behavior, start to make them feel guilty about their own extravagances.
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I have restricted myself to light snacks and have been positively miserly about the amount of ketchup I put on them.
Times, Sunday Times
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Restaurateurs know that many people won't order the cheapest wine on the list for fear of appearing miserly, which is why the second-cheapest wine on the list is often the worst deal.
For 2009, a To-Do List for Wine
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You also get a miserly 1 GB of data - an absolute joke - that's barely 15 minutes of full-speed use per day.
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Many women continued to work long, exhausting hours as wage labourers for miserly rates of pay, while as housewives their constant companions were poverty and back-breaking drudgery.
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A garage wine in the true sense, the 1.4 hectare vineyard yields a miserly 4,000 bottles in a good vintage.
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Sim did a phenomenal job presenting the heartless, miserly, self - centered Scrooge.
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His mother had been a miserly woman and had not done a single charitable deed in her lifetime.
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When you feel that everyone at the office has noticed your miserly and cheap behavior, start to make them feel guilty about their own extravagances.
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Honda's second-generation technology enables this Civic to achieve miserly fuel economy without being a flimsy little econobox.
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Here, we are given neither palm tree nor emerald star, which seems miserly.
Times, Sunday Times
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It is ridiculous to say that I was being miserly where the Royal British Legion is concerned.
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According to these latest figures, Scottish manufacturing output as a whole has virtually stalled in the past year, rising a miserly 0.1% over the previous four quarters.
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There is an impressive 72 percent support for military action if it backed by the UN but that then becomes only a miserly 20 percent if it is a bilateral US-UK effort.
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Being a student today with miserly grants and limited career prospects is difficult.
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On top of that, not only do the miserly beggars want the land for free, but they want it exempt from transfer tax.
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‘A hundred and forty-five dollars each,’ I squeaked in miserly disbelief.
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Others with a more monetary bent could base their entire philanthropic nature on this tale of a robbing rodent who swipes from the miserly and scats on the insolvent.
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In this context, Government cuts of £250,000 per annum seem miserly and ill thought-out.
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The miserly is the miserable man, who hoards money from a love of it.
Architects of Fate or, Steps to Success and Power
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He gave a seamless performance of the miserly Dickens character.
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The only cavil is that some of the extracts are on the miserly side and, from the bibliography, it is clear that the complete versions are unlikely to be available in Britain.
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He is miserly with both his time and his money.
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This contrasts so markedly with the niggardly travel concessions in this city and the miserable potential offer for the possible future by the miserly Chancellor of the Exchequer.
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a penny-pinching miserly old man
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Generous peasants might find their farms overcrowded by beggars, whereas more miserly neighbors would profit from the relative quiet and safety thus brought about at no cost to themselves.
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The average return was a miserly 4.6 per cent - investors would have been better off putting their money into a deposit account.
Times, Sunday Times
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He was miserly, which is a different thing altogether.
More Sex Is Safer Sex
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Being a student today with miserly grants and limited career prospects is difficult.
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It's because vested interests in the teaching profession are colluding with miserly politicians and ambitious parents to preserve and enhance the privileges they've won for their own offspring.
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Proclaimed one particularly prosperous-looking woman who floated past our table on the way to raise some boat dealer's bottom line, "It's about time we spent on ourselves again ... being miserly is no fun at all!
Lita Smith-Mines: The Ebbs & Flows of the Economy
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At $62 per ton, the salt takes a serious chunk of the city's $66-million snow removal budget, which has frequently been criticized as miserly.
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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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He is miserly with both his time and his money.
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He is miserly with both his time and his money.
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His action has already caused the premature death of 700,000 birds with miserly compensation to owners.
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Why was this bad-tempered, miserly, sleepless bachelor so capable of rising above both religious and scientific prejudices, with practical and theoretical insights that are still valuable today?
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Inn host is very miserly, what give everyday is dietary and very few.
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So if employers were not hiring workers, and if they were miserly when it came to increases in wages and benefits for existing employees, what happened to all the money from the strong economic growth?
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The current amount of $12,000 is a miserly and paltry amount that I strongly believe should be much higher.
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Everyone is expected to squeeze the last nickel out of his operating costs, a miserly attitude the industry has suffered under for close to a decade now.
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The government's first pledge was a miserly £1m.
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However, to many it seemed to raise productivity growth by a miserly one percent per year.
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See the history of the late 19th and early 20th centuries in America: Robber barons, greedy monopolists, exploitation of workers, child labor, sweat shops, environmental despoilation in the name of profits, economic suppression of the working class, all for the miserly profits of a few big tycoons.
The Wide Divide: You Are Being Ripped Off
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A person of limited means may be generous or have a miserly attitude (although meanness is probably less obvious in the case of the poorer person).
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The average return was a miserly 4.6 per cent - investors would have been better off putting their money into a deposit account.
Times, Sunday Times
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Dallas Stymies Kings, 5-1 Hockey: Stars play a miserly defense and score four times on power play and once short-handed.
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The process of going over to gaze at the bookshelves or running mental inventories is, for bibliophiles, roughly the equivalent of the miserly millionaire greedily counting the cash in his vault.
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Across the table the smoked salmon with dill cream and caviar at least seemed to have come from the species advertised, but the portion was miserly and at £6.95 it was a pricey starter.
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He was more miserly with titles than any sovereign since Elizabeth I - ensuring, for example, that dukedoms were reserved for the royal family alone.
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Most passengers spoken to by the newspaper, even those trudging up to 10 km to work yesterday, have been grumbling at the company rather than the drivers for what they see as miserly wages.
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We may very well find that we are contributing, through this niggardly, miserly provision, to further examples of leaky buildings.
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Mayors, and also premiers, have long lamented the fact the federal government spends a miserly two percent of what it rakes in on fuel taxes on highway construction and maintenance.
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In other words, the majority of the top-ten contractors were actually quite miserly in their campaign contributions.
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Everywhere were visible tokens of that miserly thrift which, carried to excess, degenerates into unthrift of the worst and meanest kind, from which the transition to absolute ruin is both easy and certain.
The Argosy Vol. 51, No. 4, April, 1891
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The senator accused the Australian Government of being miserly with its earthquake relief fund.
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No one uses the word “niggardly” in politics any more, no matter what degree of stinginess or miserly is intended.
Think Progress » Memorandum To Tony Snow On The Use Of The Term ‘Tar Baby’
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Ruth's great talent and energy really bring the miserly old Ebeneezer Scrooge to life.
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Its consumers have been key engines of global growth, continuing their spendthrift ways even when the rest of the world turned miserly.
