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Definitionadj. (used of persons or behavior) characterized by or indicative of lack of generosity
Last update: July 24, 2015
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Live within your means but don't be miserly. [Please select]
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Big agribusiness will weather that storm but small farmers, already earning miserly amounts, will go to the wall. [adjective]
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There are five pumps in the range with outputs from 2400 to 10000 lph; all have a miserly electrical consumption. [adjective]
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"Come, come," replied Jenny, "none of your miserly artifice here." [adjective]
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She had brought a shower of gold into the lap of the miserly freeholder, and had husband and wife completely under her thumb. [adjective]
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The gipsy of tradition is supposed to be a miserly, wealthy, sacrilegious fellow who goes about stealing children and dogs and anything else he can lay his hands upon. [adjective]
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Having spent her childhood and girlhood with a miserly father and a submissive mother, she could easily appreciate the necessity of love and joy in child life. [adjective]
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Also, when we played at cards Miss Havisham would look on, with a miserly relish of Estella's moods, whatever they were. [adjective]
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"Of all the miserly, unscrupulous, grasping characters." [Please select]
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He is mean and miserly. [Please select]
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Xlv, 40), but it was by means of almost miserly economies. [Please select]
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