Miserly is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for MISERLY in dictionary:

ADJECTIVE:
• characteristic of a miser
• of or characteristic of a miser
• (of a quantity) pitiably small or inadequate
• of or resembling a miser
• Like a miser; very covetous; sordid; niggardly.
• (used of persons or behavior) characterized by or indicative of lack of generosity

Words related to MISERLY

mingy11 miserlier11 miserliest12 miserliness13

How to use MISERLY in a sentence

• I was brought up to hate her very name, as a selfish, miserly old woman.
• I swear to you that I will, for the future, be more miserly than Martine herself.
• She was not a sordid soul, she had not a miserly nature.
• He is naturally miserly, and bestows charity only from a sense of duty.
• His eldest daughter-in-law managed the household and she alone of the family did not approve of the miserly way in which the family affairs were conducted.
• A few days later the miserly father-in-law died and the woman saw three beings dragging him out of the house by his heels, and she laughed to see him treated so for his sins.
• In her pocket were found two parcels, containing forty sovereigns, sewed up with the most miserly care.
• Longmore is not one of those miserly collectors who brood over their treasures and deny the sight of them to others.
• He might have done so, out of his earnings, for upon himself he spent scarcely anything, reverting to his old habit of an almost miserly economy.
• In former times there lived in the famous city of Baghdad a miserly old merchant named Abu Kasim.
• Thiers has been guilty of treating certain members of his family with great meanness, and in society many scandalous stories have been repeated illustrating his miserly economy.
• You have left me a treasury of happy memories which I shall hoard, when you are gone, with miserly care.
• The miserly farmer bore down heavily on his young shoulders.
• I am not such a romantic fool! I never give up an advantage once gained, and am as miserly of opportunities as your father is of his cash.
• His violence did not extend beyond words and black looks, and he was not miserly about a few francs for dress, or a dinner at the Falcone two or three times a year.
• But he could not make his farm pay, and soon got into the grasp of Aaron Poole, a miserly money-lender, who threatened to sell him out.
• The tottering, bitter old woman of Miss Allgood and the miserly, fearful son of Mr.
• Yet too often home is the very place where we are most miserly of grateful and appreciative words.
• The young wife found it difficult to believe that Monsieur de la Baudraye was so miserly as he was reputed, or else she must have great influence with him.
• But the Duke was reputed a miserly patron, and at the thought Mr.
• They appeared to regard England as a miserly employer, exacting their last ounce of energy for a wretchedly inadequate wage.
• Miserly we may be for ourselves, and generous to those who suffer, but we must be prudent and even calculating, for we are dealing with the money of the poor.
• Backward four years, and she saw herself, a penniless orphan, dependent on the bounty of that miserly Uncle Roosevelt in Montreal.
• The miserly maidens accepted, not, however, without some pressing, as is the use and wont of maidens.
• He was as miserly as his forefathers were prodigal.
• He was never miserly with his money, nor did he hoard it, contented with enough to live honestly.
• Your happiness, my dear, must not depend on his miserly old father.
• And he has lived in a most frugal, even miserly, manner.
• It was received with hisses, and wounded, doubtless, by such a reception, it was very miserly of its rays.
• Well, I hope he is miserly enough, he who would not lend a million to his brother Charles! Good! I see you are beginning to be angry.
• In these poor, miserly clothes, in that ungainly attitude, the dealer lay like so much sawdust.
• He himself in his most famous years lived so plainly that some said he was miserly, and his clothes were sometimes almost shabby.
• Ay, and the dream of those half-forgotten days comes over Scrooge, the miserly, miserable Scrooge, and wakes up something like a soul in him.
• Miserly in his household, he would be lavish upon me if I wished it.
• That economy was pushed, in many cases, almost to the extreme of miserly hoarding.
• There once lived a farmer who was so avaricious and miserly, and so hard and close in all his dealings that, as folks say, he would skin a flint.

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