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miser

[mahy-zer] / ˈmaɪ zər /


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The choice is to have a system for drawing down your money smartly so you don’t run out, or living like a miser and ending up with more when you die than you started with.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 2, 2026

“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

But she loved Coraline as a miser loves money, or a dragon loves its gold.

From "Coraline" by Neil Gaiman

Jon Clinch has revived the life behind the famous ghost in a prequel that fleshes out the early relationship between the two old misers in “A Christmas Carol.”

From Washington Post ● Oct. 22, 2019

Fuel misers will choose the 20d, a 4-cylinder turbocharged diesel that the Environmental Protection Agency rates at an average of 36 miles per gallon.

From New York Times ● Apr. 20, 2017

How do we prepare them for a world where people are proud to be stupid misers who adhere to no moral code?

From Salon ● Jan. 28, 2017

Decades of research have shown that humans are so-called cognitive misers.

From Scientific American ● Oct. 28, 2015

Think on our oaths; yes, lady, they are mutual:— You said you loved; I treasured the confession, As misers hoard their gold: nay, 'twas my all.—

From The Surrender of Calais A Play, in Three Acts by George Colman


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