About The Word Miserly

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Miserly

Miserly Meaning & Definition
Miserly Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Miserly?

[adj] used of persons or behavior; characterized by or indicative of lack of generosity; "a mean person"; "he left a miserly tip"

Synonyms | Synonyms for Miserly: mean | mingy | stingy | tight | ungenerous

Related Terms | Find terms related to Miserly: 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 | Lenten | 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 | Spartan | spotty | sprinkled | starvation | stingy | stinted | straitened | stunted | subsistence | swinish | thin | tight | tightfisted | tight-fisted | unappeasable | unappeased | ungenerous | unnourishing | unnutritious | unquenchable | unsated | unsatisfied | unslakeable | unslaked | venal | voracious | watered | watery

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Miserly In Webster's Dictionary

\Mi"ser*ly\, a. [From {Miser}.] Like a miser; very covetous; sordid; niggardly. Syn: Avaricious; niggardly; sordid; parsimonious; penurious; covetous; stingy; mean. See {Avaricious}.

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