Thesaurus / miserliness

miserliness

EXAMPLE SENTENCES FROM THE WEB

Their tartness and strictness and miserliness had made the life of the girls in the school uncomfortable for some time.

That institution has for twenty-six years been crying shame on miserliness and cupidity.

We must show him that we despise his miserliness and meanness.

PRACTICAL ETHICSWILLIAM DEWITT HYDE

But then, old Jacob Patterson was noted as much for his surliness as for his miserliness.

Does economic theory throw any light on the ethics of miserliness?

So it was not miserliness; it was just a peculiarity, a curious attention to a trifling detail.

It might be impossible to make impression on the miserliness of a miser, but upon the honesty in a miser it might be possible!

THE ELECT LADYGEORGE MACDONALD

Not so old in years, perhaps; but old in wickedness, and aged beyond his years by his own miserliness.

Aunt Pussys superstition struggled with her miserliness throughout her frugal breakfast.

This was not due to miserliness, but to her simple tastes and her frugal early life.

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