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miserly

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1. miserly - Adjective

2. miserly - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

Like a miser; very covetous; sordid; niggardly.

Source: Webster's dictionary

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Never support two weaknesses at the same time. It's your combination sinners --your lecherous liars and your miserly drunkards --who dishonor the vices and bring them into bad repute. Thornton Wilder

A bottle of wine begs to be shared; I have never met a miserly wine lover. Clifton Fadiman

See how the light tenderly love the apricots, it takes them over completely, enters into their pulp, light them from all sides! But it is miserly with the peaches and light only one side of them. Paul Cézanne

The miserly one is never restful; the envious is never pleased; the grumbler is never loyal; the liar has no conscience. Ali al-Rida

The miserly man is like a fattened ox: he will give of his fat only when he has been deprived of his life. African Proverb

A miserly father makes a prodigal man. French Proverb

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