Miserly

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • adj. Of, relating to, or characteristic of a miser; avaricious or penurious.
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adj. Like a miser; very covetous; stingy; cautious with money
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adj. Like a miser; very covetous; avaricious; stingy; sordid; niggardly.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Like a miser; penurious; sordid; niggardly; parsimonious: as, a miserly person, or a person of miserly habits.
    • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • adj. (used of persons or behavior) characterized by or indicative of lack of generosity
    • Equivalent
    stingy    ungenerous   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    avaricious    covetous    stingy    parsimonious    mean    penurious    sordid    niggardly    sting    greedy   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    niggardly    stingy    closefisted    penurious    covetous    illiberal    ungenerous    quarrelsome    unsociable    uncharitable   
     
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