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What (who) is miserly - definition
PERSON WHO IS RELUCTANT TO SPEND, SOMETIMES TO THE POINT OF FORGOING EVEN BASIC COMFORTS AND SOME NECESSITIES, IN ORDER TO HOARD MONEY OR OTHER POSSESSIONS
Tightwaddery; Cheapskate; Penny pincher; Stinginess; Skinflint; Mean (miserly); Miserliness; Misers; Miserly person; Miserly
![A print of John Gay's "The Miser and Plutus" by [[William Blake]], 1793](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Blake Miser&Plutus.jpg?width=200 "A print of John Gay's \"The Miser and Plutus\" by [[William Blake]], 1793")
![A pencil drawing of [[Daniel Dancer]] by [[Richard Cooper Jr]], 1790s](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Cooper Dancer.jpg?width=200 "A pencil drawing of [[Daniel Dancer]] by [[Richard Cooper Jr]], 1790s")
![Ainsworth's]] ''[[The Miser's Daughter]]''](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Cruickshank miser.jpg?width=200 "Ainsworth's]] ''[[The Miser's Daughter]]''")
![''[[Death and the Miser]]'' by [[Hieronymus Bosch]] in 1494](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Jheronimus Bosch 050.jpg?width=200 "''[[Death and the Miser]]'' by [[Hieronymus Bosch]] in 1494")
![[[Aubrey Beardsley]]'s 1898 title page for [[Ben Jonson]]'s play ''[[Volpone]]''](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Volpone Beardsley.jpg?width=200 "[[Aubrey Beardsley]]'s 1898 title page for [[Ben Jonson]]'s play ''[[Volpone]]''")
miserly
¦ adjective
1. of or characteristic of a miser.
2. (of a quantity) pitiably small.
Derivatives
miserliness noun
miserly
1.
If you describe someone as miserly, you disapprove of them because they seem to hate spending money, and to spend as little as possible.
He is miserly with both his time and his money.
= mean
ADJ [disapproval]
2.
If you describe an amount of something as miserly, you are critical of it because it is very small.
Being a student today with miserly grants and limited career prospects is difficult.
= measly
ADJ: usu ADJ n [disapproval]
miserly
a.
Covetous, avaricious, niggardly, sordid, stingy, parsimonious, penurious, close, mean, close-fisted.
Wikipedia
Miser
A miser is a person who is reluctant to spend, sometimes to the point of forgoing even basic comforts and some necessities, in order to hoard money or other possessions. Although the word is sometimes used loosely to characterise anyone who is mean with their money, if such behaviour is not accompanied by taking delight in what is saved, it is not properly miserly.
Misers as a type have been a perennial object of popular fascination and a fruitful source for writers and artists in many cultures.
Examples of use of miserly
1. Flintoff the bowler is a different animal÷ steady, disciplined, miserly.
2. But now such behavior is considered to be miserly.
3. If they are wounded, they face inadequate health services and miserly compensation.
4. "The level of state support to parents is miserly," he said.
5. Miserly Republicans, Unprincipled Democrats Are Republicans stingy but principled while Democrats are generous but racist?