miserliness

Noun

Meaning

total lack of generosity with money

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In the rare cases where it occurs, a failure to increase one's visible consumption when the means for an increase are at hand is felt in popular apprehension to call for explanation, and unworthy motives of miserliness are imputed. Thorstein Veblen

A soul that is reluctant to share does not as a rule have much of its own. Miserliness is here a symptom of meagerness. Eric Hoffer

It should cause no surprise that anyone so lazy as myself should be economical to the point of miserliness with everything he writes. Leslie Charteris

Pritchett, 155 The tale of a young lady who inherits her father's miserliness, it also became the most critically acclaimed book of his career. Source: Internet

Herodian, on the other hand, was convinced that "the emperor's miserliness (partly the result of his mother's greed) and slowness to bestow donatives" were instrumental in the fall of military discipline under Alexander. Source: Internet

For example, generosity is a virtue between the two extrema of miserliness and being profligate. Source: Internet

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