miserliness

Example Sentences

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To establish this miserliness of spirit, the present day scenes start with a Brooklyn traffic jam caused by an escaped sauropod laying collapsed and dying on the side of the road.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 30, 2025

“It’s a kind of meanness and miserliness on the part of these prosperous countries that say, we don’t want these people,” he said.

From New York Times • Oct. 7, 2021

Some economists say that focussing on Amazon’s miserliness or on the conditions inside its warehouses obscures larger, more positive truths.

From The New Yorker • Oct. 10, 2019

All I’m asking is for you to stop making jokes about my miserliness or suggesting that I’m trying to punish my relatives by setting boundaries with them.

From Slate • May 23, 2019

Now I’m embarrassed, and beyond that overwhelmed to discover a covert stream of generosity running counter to the dominant corporate miserliness.

From "Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America" by Barbara Ehrenreich