miserly

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People like this are very difficult to deal with, tend to be very miserly, and will be a non-stop headache.

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(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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adjective

(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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adjective

(used of persons or behavior) characterized by or indicative of lack of generosity; "a mean person"; "he left a miserly tip"

Example sentences

People like this are very difficult to deal with, tend to be very miserly, and will be a non-stop headache.

If your charity compels you to be poor, accept that with good heart, and do not be miserly no matter how much you own.

Where corn has giant cobs crammed with hundreds upon hundreds of big juicy kernals, teosinte has a miserly amount of sad, pathetic, and tiny little kernals.

I tend to side on L3's notion that upgrading the interconnects is something with such a large pay-off it's miserly to even consider worrying about it.

A very small minority of HN readers can propel something to the front-page with ease, with relatively few votes: Right now, two hours in, this has earned the arrows of a miserly 59 users.

"If Apple penalizes developers and undermines the promise it is making to users because it decides to be miserly about bandwidth, then it has to admit it launched iCloud before it was ready.

It's incredible what our body will do -- virtually anybody can run a marathon, for example -- but it takes a lot of orchestration to convince our body to release its miserly grip on our resources and do the job we'd like it to do.