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| Grammar : Adj |
| Spell : mahy-zer-lee |
| Phonetic Transcription : ˈmaɪ zər li |
Definition of miserly
Origin :- 1590s, from miser + -ly (1). Related: Miserliness.
- adj greedy, stingy
- It'll cost him more than he'll ever get from my miserly uncle to repair it.
- Extract from : « Brave and Bold » by Horatio Alger
- I admired her charms, and I was delighted to see that she was not miserly in their display.
- Extract from : « The Memoires of Casanova, Complete » by Jacques Casanova de Seingalt
- Ruth remembered what Roberto had said about his miserly grandmother.
- Extract from : « Ruth Fielding and the Gypsies » by Alice B. Emerson
- Ruth Fielding was an orphan and came to live with her miserly uncle.
- Extract from : « Ruth Fielding and the Gypsies » by Alice B. Emerson
- He was so careful, so—so miserly in some ways, so wildly extravagant in others.
- Extract from : « Good Old Anna » by Marie Belloc Lowndes
- Mean and miserly as he was, he agreed to this with reluctance, and only as a measure of necessity.
- Extract from : « The Telegraph Boy » by Horatio Alger, Jr.
- Ask her to bear corn or pasture flocks, and she will be miserly and grudging.
- Extract from : « Robert Elsmere » by Mrs. Humphry Ward
- It was not that Uncle Abimelech was miserly or that he grudged us assistance.
- Extract from : « Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories, 1902 to 1903 » by Lucy Maud Montgomery
- A miserly daw, who would not risk a crown to save the crown.
- Extract from : « The Lady of Loyalty House » by Justin Huntly McCarthy
- The old Librarian was getting a miserly feeling about his books, as he called them.
- Extract from : « A Mortal Antipathy » by Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
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