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miserlyadjective giving or sharing as little as possiblemy brother, who is notoriously miserly, surprised us when he offered to pick up the tab cheap, chintzy, close, closefisted, mean, mingy, niggard, niggardly, parsimonious, penny-pinching, penurious, pinching, pinchpenny, spare, sparing, stingy, stinting, tight, tightfisted, uncharitable, ungenerous careful, chary, conserving, economical, economizing, frugal, saving, scrimping, skimping, thriftyacquisitive, avaricious, avid, coveting, covetous, desirous, grasping, greedy, hoggish, itchy, mercenary, rapacious, selfish, shabby, small, sordidbegrudging, envious, grudging, resentfulinhospitable bounteous, bountiful, charitable, freehanded, generous, liberal, munificent, openhanded, unsparing, unstinting altruistic, selfless, unselfishextravagant, free, handsome, lavish, overgenerous, profusebeneficent, benevolent, hospitable, humanitarian, philanthropic(also philanthropical)compassionate, good-hearted, greathearted, kindly, magnanimous, openheartedthriftless, unthriftydissipating, frittering, prodigal, profligate, spendthrift, splurging, squandering, wasteful, wasting stingy, close, niggardly, parsimonious, penurious, miserly mean being unwilling or showing unwillingness to share with others.stingy implies a marked lack of generosity.a stingy child, not given to sharing close suggests keeping a tight grip on one's money and possessions.folks who are very close when charity calls niggardly implies giving or spending the very smallest amount possible.the niggardly amount budgeted for the town library parsimonious suggests a frugality so extreme as to lead to stinginess.a parsimonious lifestyle notably lacking in luxuries penurious implies niggardliness that gives an appearance of actual poverty.the penurious eccentric bequeathed a fortune miserly suggests a sordid avariciousness and a morbid pleasure in hoarding.a miserly couple devoid of social conscience in 1593 |