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adj.greedy, stingy

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Lost jobs mean no money for rent, at least with our miserly welfare system.

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Old Ebenezer Balfour turns out to be miserly and widely hated, residing in a dilapidated, only half-built house.

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A Christmas Carol, Charles Dickens’s beloved novella about a miserly old man and the three ghosts who visit to teach him about the spirit of Christmas, is one of my favorite stories ever written.

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With the passage of Prop 22, the companies have now legislated into existence another miserly version of a portable safety net, along with a face-saving attempt at a minimum wage.

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So being hypocritical and miserly are what Falwell is being roasted for.

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They also took advantage of the necessity of others, in miserly traffic in Beaver skins with the Savages.

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A little breath of red crept into the withered cheeks of the miserly old man.

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If a man be poor who wishes to have everything, then an ambitious and a miserly man languish in extreme poverty.

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A very religious and very miserly man who hoarded for his son.

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The unhappy fact was that this sudden acquisition of wealth had developed a really miserly disposition in the elder brother.