miserly

How To Use miserly In A Sentence

• He was more miserly with titles than any sovereign since Elizabeth I - ensuring, for example, that dukedoms were reserved for the royal family alone.
• Inn host is very miserly, what give everyday is dietary and very few.
• Why was this bad-tempered, miserly, sleepless bachelor so capable of rising above both religious and scientific prejudices, with practical and theoretical insights that are still valuable today?
• His action has already caused the premature death of 700,000 birds with miserly compensation to owners.
• He is miserly with both his time and his money.
• He is miserly with both his time and his money.
• 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."
• At $62 per ton, the salt takes a serious chunk of the city's $66-million snow removal budget, which has frequently been criticized as miserly.
• Proclaimed one particularly prosperous-looking woman who floated past our table on the way to raise some boat dealer's bottom line, "It's about time we spent on ourselves again ... being miserly is no fun at all! Lita Smith-Mines: The Ebbs & Flows of the Economy
• It's because vested interests in the teaching profession are colluding with miserly politicians and ambitious parents to preserve and enhance the privileges they've won for their own offspring.