miserliness
Example Sentences
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Just last Wednesday, I posted a column reporting how our richest corporations, through sheer miserliness and profit-seeking, left millions of Americans vulnerable to technological attacks on their privacy and welfare.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 23, 2024
In all the versions of the story, there is resistance, skepticism, fear, miserliness, scarcity or a suspicion that must first be conquered.
From New York Times ● Dec. 15, 2021
If that’s his idea of miserliness, I’m a little scared to imagine what he thinks generosity looks like.
From Slate ● May 23, 2019
Even when they have not been at their best thus far, they have dug out a result and their defensive miserliness bodes well.
From The Guardian ● Oct. 14, 2016
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
