Thesaurus / miserliness

miserliness

How to use miserliness in a sentence

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

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

Noto used to get reprimands from Bhavani for his natural miserliness in these items of future expenditure.

There were in the Professor's nature no sympathies that enabled him even to comprehend miserliness in any degree.

ONCE ABOARD THE LUGGERARTHUR STUART-MENTETH HUTCHINSON

Burnet says that his miserable way of living and extreme miserliness rendered him disagreeable to everybody, even his own party.

Chincherye, miserliness, parsimony; from the adj. chinche, which occurs in 2793.

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

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

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

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

SYNONYM OF THE DAY

OCTOBER 26, 1985