How To Use miserliness In A Sentence
- And of course, as humans we could experience the same torment, because of our own patterns of greed and miserliness.
- The presence of a collector at the church-gate annoys them because it's another reminder of their miserliness.
- Scrooge has been immortalised in the English language as the epitome of miserliness and meanness of spirit.
- It also clearly illuminates where the line is, and why calling a miserly person a "Jew" is an insult (because the insinuation of miserliness is derogatory) whereas saying Asians like rice is not (because there's no derogatory insinuation). "We, in former times, constantly made jokes about different races."
- He notes that he looked "to those twelve Caesars so mistreated by Suetonius," in the hope of emulating the best of each: "the clear-sightedness of Tiberius, without his harshness; the learning of Claudius without his weakness; Nero's taste for the arts, but stripped of all foolish vanity; the kindness of Titus, stopping short of his sentimentality; Vespasian's thrift, but not his absurd miserliness. Portrait of Power Embodied in a Roman Emperor
- Around him in his lifetime grew legends of wealth, miserliness, misogyny, and efficiency, some of which had a basis in truth.
- To combat miserliness, for example, you would train yourself to practice generosity for only a day or a week at a time.
- 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 government's miserliness was quickly exposed by donations from ordinary citizens.
