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miserliness noun [ ˈmʌɪzəlɪnɪs ]

• excessive desire to save money; extreme meanness.
• "the party earned a damaging reputation for miserliness by cutting pensions"
Similar: avarice, acquisitiveness, parsimony, parsimoniousness, penny-pinching, cheese-paring, thrift, meanness, niggardliness, close-fistedness, closeness, penuriousness, illiberality, greed, asceticism, puritanism, masochism, stinginess, minginess, tightness, tight-fistedness, cheapness, nearness,
Opposite: generosity,


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