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miserly adjective [ ˈmʌɪzəli ]

• of or characteristic of a miser.
• "his miserly great-uncle proved to be worth nearly £1 million"
Similar: parsimonious, close-fisted, penny-pinching, cheese-paring, grasping, greedy, avaricious, Scrooge-like, ungenerous, illiberal, close, ascetic, puritanical, masochistic, mean, stingy, mingy, tight, tight-fisted, money-grubbing, money-grabbing, cheap, near, tight-arsed, tight-assed,
Opposite: spendthrift, generous,


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