miser
Example Sentences
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“I’m a miser right now when it comes to what I’m spending at supermarkets,” he said.
From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 15, 2025
Pansy is such a miser that, for a moment, you wonder if she’ll be visited by three spirits.
From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 9, 2025
A new four-episode podcast aims to show how Ebenezer Scrooge became the miserable miser of the Charles Dickens’ classic “A Christmas Carol,” focusing on themes of redemption, mercy, grace and compassion.
From Washington Times • Nov. 27, 2023
"People have remembered her as being eccentric, grumpy, prickly. She gets accused of being both a miser and a spendthrift - and that she did unpleasant things."
From BBC • May 27, 2022
But she loved Coraline as a miser loves money, or a dragon loves its gold.
From "Coraline" by Neil Gaiman
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A Room of One's Own
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