miserly
English edit
Etymology edit
miser + -ly, attested from the 1540s.
Pronunciation edit
Adjective edit
miserly (comparative more miserly, superlative most miserly)
- Like a miser, very cautious with money.
- Synonyms: see Thesaurus:stingy
- 1991, Art Spiegelman, Maus I: My Father Bleeds History, New York: Pantheon Books, page 131:
- It's something that worries me about the book I'm doing about him... In some ways he's just like the racist caricature of the miserly old Jew.
- 2005, J. M. Coetzee, “Three”, in Slow Man, New York: Viking, →ISBN, page 20:
- What could be more selfish, more miserly—this in specific is what gnaws at him—than dying childless, terminating the line, subtracting oneself from the great work of generation? Worse than miserly, in fact: unnatural.
Derived terms edit
Translations edit
stingy
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Further reading edit
- “miserly”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
- “miserly”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.