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miserly

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Adjective
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mi=ser=ly

CIDE DICTIONARY

miserlya. [From Miser.].
     Like a miser; very covetous; avaricious; stingy; sordid; niggardly.  [1913 Webster]
Syn. -- Avaricious; niggardly; sordid; parsimonious; avaricious; penurious; covetous; stingy; mean. See Avaricious.

OXFORD DICTIONARY

miserly, adj. like a miser, niggardly.

Derivative
miserliness n.
Etymology
MISER

THESAURUS

miserly

Lenten, Spartan, a hog for, abject, abstemious, acquisitive, all-devouring, ascetic, austere, avaricious, avid, bottomless, cheap, cheeseparing, chinchy, chintzy, close, closefisted, coveting, covetous, devouring, dwarfed, dwarfish, esurient, exiguous, frugal, gluttonous, gobbling, grabby, grasping, greedy, hardfisted, hoggish, ignoble, illiberal, impoverished, infrequent, insatiable, insatiate, jejune, lean, limited, limitless, meager, mean, mercenary, mingy, money-hungry, money-mad, narrow, near, niggardly, omnivorous, overgreedy, paltry, parsimonious, penny-pinching, penurious, piddling, piggish, pinchfisted, pinching, poor, puny, quenchless, rapacious, rare, ravening, ravenous, save-all, scant, scanty, scarce, scattered, scrawny, scrimp, scrimping, scrimpy, seldom met with, seldom seen, skimp, skimping, skimpy, slakeless, slender, slight, slim, small, sordid, spare, sparing, sparse, spotty, sprinkled, starvation, stingy, stinted, straitened, stunted, subsistence, swinish, thin, tight, tight-fisted, tightfisted, unappeasable, unappeased, ungenerous, unnourishing, unnutritious, unquenchable, unsated, unsatisfied, unslakeable, unslaked, venal, voracious, watered, watery

ROGET THESAURUS

miserly

Parsimony

N parsimony, parcity, parsimoniousness, stinginess, stint, illiberality, tenacity, avarice, greed, miser, niggard, churl, screw, skinflint, crib, codger, muckworm, scrimp, lickpenny, hunks, curmudgeon, Harpagon, harpy, extortioner, Jew, usurer, Hessian, pinch fist, pinch penny, parsimonious, penurious, stingy, miserly, mean, shabby, peddling, scrubby, penny wise, near, niggardly, close, fast handed, close handed, strait handed, close fisted, hard fisted, tight fisted, tight, sparing, chary, grudging, griping, illiberal, ungenerous, churlish, hidebound, sordid, mercenary, venal, covetous, usurious, avaricious, greedy, extortionate, rapacious, with a sparing hand, desunt inopioe multa avaritiae omnia, hoards after hoards his rising raptures fill, the unsunn'd heaps of miser's treasures.


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