Meaning of MISERLY
| Pronunciation: | | 'mIzurlee
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| | Definition: | | [adj] used of persons or behavior; characterized by or indicative of lack of generosity; "a mean person"; "he left a miserly tip" |
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| | Synonyms: | | mean, mingy, stingy, tight, ungenerous |
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| | Definition: | | \Mi"ser*ly\, a. [From {Miser}.]
Like a miser; very covetous; sordid; niggardly.
Syn: Avaricious; niggardly; sordid; parsimonious; penurious;
covetous; stingy; mean. See {Avaricious}.
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| | Related Terms: | | a hog for, abject, abstemious, acquisitive, all-devouring, ascetic, austere, avaricious, avid, bottomless, cheap, cheeseparing, chinchy, chintzy, close, closefisted, coveting, covetous, devouring, dwarfed, dwarfish, esurient, exiguous, frugal, gluttonous, gobbling, grabby, grasping, greedy, hardfisted, hoggish, ignoble, illiberal, impoverished, infrequent, insatiable, insatiate, jejune, lean, Lenten, limited, limitless, meager, mean, mercenary, mingy, money-hungry, money-mad, narrow, near, niggardly, omnivorous, overgreedy, paltry, parsimonious, penny-pinching, penurious, piddling, piggish, pinchfisted, pinching, poor, puny, quenchless, rapacious, rare, ravening, ravenous, save-all, scant, scanty, scarce, scattered, scrawny, scrimp, scrimping, scrimpy, seldom met with, seldom seen, skimp, skimping, skimpy, slakeless, slender, slight, slim, small, sordid, spare, sparing, sparse, Spartan, spotty, sprinkled, starvation, stingy, stinted, straitened, stunted, subsistence, swinish, thin, tight, tightfisted, tight-fisted, unappeasable, unappeased, ungenerous, unnourishing, unnutritious, unquenchable, unsated, unsatisfied, unslakeable, unslaked, venal, voracious, watered, watery |
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