Meaning of Miserliness | Babel Free

Definitions

The property of being miserly: excessive parsimony.

uncountable, usually

Equivalents

Examples

“Near-synonyms: stinginess, cheapness, tightness”

“Even his amazing miserliness was passed over acceptedly, for of such are the kingdom of shepherd millionaires.”

“There were enough people in the room who wouldn’t mind seeing Beaufort-Holmes hurt to make the chorus a full and, to the uninitiated ear, good-humoured one. His colleagues wouldn’t mind because of his faith that he was a don, they lecturers or worse, and because of remembered miserlinesses.”

CEFR level