Thesaurus / miserliness
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So it was not miserliness; it was just a peculiarity, a curious attention to a trifling detail.
MARK TWAIN, A BIOGRAPHY, 1835-1910, COMPLETEALBERT BIGELOW PAINETheir tartness and strictness and miserliness had made the life of the girls in the school uncomfortable for some time.
BILLIE BRADLEY ON LIGHTHOUSE ISLANDJANET D. WHEELERNoto used to get reprimands from Bhavani for his natural miserliness in these items of future expenditure.
STORIES FROM TAGORERABINDRANATH TAGOREThere were in the Professor's nature no sympathies that enabled him even to comprehend miserliness in any degree.
ONCE ABOARD THE LUGGERARTHUR STUART-MENTETH HUTCHINSONBurnet says that his miserable way of living and extreme miserliness rendered him disagreeable to everybody, even his own party.
THE WORKS OF APHRA BEHN, VOLUME VIAPHRA BEHNChincherye, miserliness, parsimony; from the adj. chinche, which occurs in 2793.
CHAUCER'S WORKS, VOLUME 5 (OF 7) -- NOTES TO THE CANTERBURY TALESGEOFFREY CHAUCERDoes economic theory throw any light on the ethics of miserliness?
THE PRINCIPLES OF ECONOMICSFRANK A. FETTERAunt Pussys superstition struggled with her miserliness throughout her frugal breakfast.
THE ROMANCE OF HIS LIFEMARY CHOLMONDELEYNot so old in years, perhaps; but old in wickedness, and aged beyond his years by his own miserliness.
THE CORNER HOUSE GIRLS' ODD FINDGRACE BROOKS HILLThat institution has for twenty-six years been crying shame on miserliness and cupidity.
BRAVE MEN AND WOMENO.E. FULLERWORDS RELATED TO MISERLINESS
- abridgement
- austerity
- care
- carefulness
- caution
- curtailment
- cutback
- decrease
- deduction
- direction
- discretion
- frugality
- husbandry
- layoff
- meanness
- miserliness
- moratorium
- parcity
- parsimony
- providence
- prudence
- recession
- reduction
- regulation
- restraint
- retrenchment
- rollback
- scrimping
- shrinkage
- skimping
- sparingness
- stinginess
- supervision
- thrift
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