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Despite her wealth, he lived in a miserly way, refusing to buy anything he didn’t absolutely need.miserly = excessively unwilling to spend
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She left a miserly tip.miserly = less than appropriate
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The miserly landlord refused to pay for basic repairs in the building.miserly = excessively unwilling to spend
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How miserly, now But she knew the family histories, or at least something about them.† (source)
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The trees they'd imagined to be swollen with fruit were frail and injured-looking, with only a small array of apples hanging miserly from each branch.† (source)
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So many opportunities in this country are apportioned in this arbitrary and miserly way, distributed to those who already have the benefit of a privileged legacy.† (source)
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A person who is very miserly, for example, will characterize others as penny-pinchers.† (source)
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The others made fun of what they believed was his miserliness, but he could not eat it or throw it away, until finally, in the outhouse, he let it fall into the earth's stinking hole.† (source)standard suffix: The suffix "-ness" converts an adjective to a noun that means the quality of. This is the same pattern you see in words like darkness, kindness, and coolness.
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A misericord, a "mercy-killer," the kind of blade that was meant to pierce through the gaps in armor and deliver a killing stroke.† (source)
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He went on and on, shaming the congregants for their miserly ways.† (source)
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There they were, in their astonishing contradictions: the business man who had no business method, and yet had made his million dollars; the frantic antagonist of Capital who had given the loyal service of a lifetime to the thing he denounced; the wastrel son, with the bull vitality of the athlete, a great laugh, animal charm—no more; the musician son, a college rebel, intelligent, fanatic, with a good head for figures; insane miserliness for oneself, lavish expenditure for one's children.† (source)
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No fame of them the world permits to be; Misericord and Justice both disdain them.† (source)
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The worst inconvenience was that of limited rations; if they were to avoid starvation, food would have to be dispensed in miserly portions.† (source)
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He is vulnerable to reason there—always a few grains of common-sense in an ounce of miserliness.† (source)
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And the traveller Leopold was couth to him sithen it had happed that they had had ado each with other in the house of misericord where this learningknight lay by cause the traveller Leopold came there to be healed for he was sore wounded in his breast by a spear wherewith a horrible and dreadful dragon was smitten him for which he did do make a salve of volatile salt and chrism as much as he might suffice.† (source)
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It seemed to rise out of the earth, a huge boxlike intrusion on the pastoral scene, an ugly man-made interruption of heavy brown wood and miserly windows reaching three stories high and covering two acres of land.† (source)
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