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Definition of miserliness in English: miserlinessnoun ˈmʌɪzəlɪnɪsˈmaɪzərlinəs mass noun1Excessive desire to save money; extreme meanness. the party earned a damaging reputation for miserliness by cutting pensions Example sentencesExamples - What explains this institutional miserliness at the very top of Britain's wealth tree?
- He never has sudden moods of miserliness.
- As a planet, we need to re-valuate the consumerist view that "more is better," and how that view creates miserliness, jealousy, and inequality.
- Given the widespread existence of such demeaning conditions and the dominant corporate miserliness, why don't the wretched of this low-wage world revolt?
- The presence of a collector at the church-gate annoys them because it's another reminder of their miserliness.
- Miserliness and wastefulness are equally deplored in Buddhism as two degenerate extremes.
- However, Pat does not recognize how similar she is to her father and persists in blaming the failure of the relationship to sustain her on his coldness, and miserliness.
- Continually, when you see others, Delight in giving without miserliness.
- Around him in his lifetime grew legends of wealth, miserliness, misogyny, and efficiency, some of which had a basis in truth.
- He was known for his extreme miserliness.
- The government's miserliness was quickly exposed by donations from ordinary citizens.
- The result is ongoing competition and conflict and the valorization of generosity and condemnation of miserliness and envy.
- This combination of cynicism and miserliness does not augur well for the success of the programme.
- The party also earned a damaging reputation for miserliness by cutting pensions and salaries and fostering economic alarmism.
- Like Gertrude, whose behaviour provides too insubstantial a cause for Hamlet's disgust, Cherie's impecunious mother makes an inadequate pretext for her affluent daughter's lifelong miserliness and greed.
- It is the very depth of his miserliness which draws us all, young and old, into the story.
- Therefore, you should not worry that he will be held accountable for miserliness or whatever.
- And of course, as humans we could experience the same torment, because of our own patterns of greed and miserliness.
- A large, expensive fridge in a wealthy home will be excused smoked salmon and costly cheeses, but if no small luxuries are evident is it a case of miserliness?
- To combat miserliness, for example, you would train yourself to practice generosity for only a day or a week at a time.
Synonyms avarice, acquisitiveness, parsimony, parsimoniousness, penny-pinching, cheese-paring, thrift meanness, niggardliness, close-fistedness, closeness, penuriousness, illiberality, greed asceticism, puritanism, masochism informal stinginess, minginess, tightness, tight-fistedness North American cheapness archaic nearness - 1.1 The quality of being small or inadequate; meagreness.
the relative miserliness of the prizes involved Example sentencesExamples - However, because of the relative miserliness of the prizes involved in those days, the American quiz show scandals pale into insignificance next to this one.
Definition of miserliness in US English: miserlinessnounˈmīzərlēnəsˈmaɪzərlinəs 1Excessive desire to save money; extreme meanness. the party earned a damaging reputation for miserliness by cutting pensions Example sentencesExamples - The government's miserliness was quickly exposed by donations from ordinary citizens.
- However, Pat does not recognize how similar she is to her father and persists in blaming the failure of the relationship to sustain her on his coldness, and miserliness.
- To combat miserliness, for example, you would train yourself to practice generosity for only a day or a week at a time.
- What explains this institutional miserliness at the very top of Britain's wealth tree?
- Like Gertrude, whose behaviour provides too insubstantial a cause for Hamlet's disgust, Cherie's impecunious mother makes an inadequate pretext for her affluent daughter's lifelong miserliness and greed.
- He never has sudden moods of miserliness.
- Around him in his lifetime grew legends of wealth, miserliness, misogyny, and efficiency, some of which had a basis in truth.
- This combination of cynicism and miserliness does not augur well for the success of the programme.
- Given the widespread existence of such demeaning conditions and the dominant corporate miserliness, why don't the wretched of this low-wage world revolt?
- He was known for his extreme miserliness.
- And of course, as humans we could experience the same torment, because of our own patterns of greed and miserliness.
- As a planet, we need to re-valuate the consumerist view that "more is better," and how that view creates miserliness, jealousy, and inequality.
- The presence of a collector at the church-gate annoys them because it's another reminder of their miserliness.
- It is the very depth of his miserliness which draws us all, young and old, into the story.
- Continually, when you see others, Delight in giving without miserliness.
- The party also earned a damaging reputation for miserliness by cutting pensions and salaries and fostering economic alarmism.
- Miserliness and wastefulness are equally deplored in Buddhism as two degenerate extremes.
- A large, expensive fridge in a wealthy home will be excused smoked salmon and costly cheeses, but if no small luxuries are evident is it a case of miserliness?
- Therefore, you should not worry that he will be held accountable for miserliness or whatever.
- The result is ongoing competition and conflict and the valorization of generosity and condemnation of miserliness and envy.
Synonyms avarice, acquisitiveness, parsimony, parsimoniousness, penny-pinching, cheese-paring, thrift - 1.1 The quality of being small or inadequate; meagerness.
the relative miserliness of the prizes involved Example sentencesExamples - However, because of the relative miserliness of the prizes involved in those days, the American quiz show scandals pale into insignificance next to this one.
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