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"miserly" Definitions
  1. (of a person) hating to spend money synonym mean
  2. (of a quantity or amount) too small synonym paltry

155 Sentences With "miserly"

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Slamming America's allies for miserly defence spending, he declared NATO "obsolete".
Union has accomplished all this despite operating on a miserly budget.
Insta­gram's managers also believed that Facebook was being miserly about their budget.
And NSX is miserly with a gallon of gas — for a supercar.
Their goal then: Push the miserly German government to open its wallet.
Median weekly earnings have grown a miserly 0.1 percent a year since 1979.
While we embrace universal health care and social welfare, we can be miserly.
Once we outlawed 80-hour workweeks at miserly pay, we didn't reinstate them.
"This is a time for courage and imagination, not miserly bean-counting," it said.
The 17.1 cubic feet of cargo space behind the rear seats is miserly as well.
Donald Trump may be a miserly, corrupt bigot but his daughter is caring, charitable, dutiful.
It saddens me that the Trump administration is so miserly in its thinking and actions.
Funding would be handled by Whitehall rather than local councils, which are struggling with miserly budgets.
Weekend Miser It's early in the new year, but miserly culture hounds can already reap dividends.
Because Capricorns are so self-reliant, they're finicky about their resources and can become miserly spendthrifts.
I donate $2 which I know makes me seem miserly, but they don't really solicit anything!
However, WHO has only received a miserly $2202 million in cash and 2628 million in pledges.
Elinor Dashwood, now the put-upon wife of a miserly Edward Ferrars, becomes a famous novelist.
Among those who bowled at least 300 deliveries, only four conceded runs at a more miserly rate.
Not long ago, Los Angeles ditched its power-hungry sodium-vapor streetlights in favor of miserly LEDs.
No. The current welfare system is miserly and overbearing, and a basic income would be an improvement.
We know that J.P. Getty (Donald Sutherland), his miserly grandfather, is hesitant to give up any funds.
In China and America, online grocery shopping is a miserly 3.8% and 1.6% of the total, respectively.
Ebenezer Scrooge, the infamously miserly protagonist, embodies an especially nasty version of the scarcity economics of Thomas Malthus.
But economists say that effort has translated into miserly economic growth because it withdrew money from the economy.
Networking Switches: Nintendo was too miserly to send me two Switches to test network play and sharing games. Unforgivable!
As you can imagine, though, the government is notoriously miserly when it comes to negotiating or even offering immunity.
It is now soliciting more, offering generous interest (by today's miserly standards) on balances of as little as $1.
In terms of direct spending on social welfare, the United States seems miserly compared with many other developed nations.
His WHIP (walks plus hits per inning pitched) is a miserly 0.33, his earned run average a perfect 0.00.
The homeless man accused me of being miserly and "dishonoring our agreement" (in my view, we didn't have one).
But Iraqi democracy is a petty, miserly game of deals and influence, with declining buy-in from the population.
The offers she's received have been miserly, she said, and she's suspicious it will get poorly taken care of.
But its returns on average capital employed, an industry benchmark, were a miserly 3.8%—well below its cost of capital.
Be sure to scour battlegrounds and Shrines before you leave if you want to get really miserly with your arrows.
Neither are miners splashing out on their staff, with annual wage growth in the sector stuck at a miserly 2%.
Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, a former Exxon Mobil chief executive, has been shockingly complicit in Mr. Trump's miserly approach.
Throughout the episode, his mistresses and secretaries communicate in side-glances as if to say, "Seriously, dude?" at Getty's miserly antics.
His list of headwinds included a miserly pace of global business investment, lackluster productivity, sluggish wage growth and too-low inflation.
Country-level rules cannot force the miserly or the better off to spend more for the good of the currency area.
In October, they raised wages just a tad over inflation, at 2.4%, a plunge from September's already-miserly rate of 2.8%.
Like many of the show's characters, he's a broad stereotype, a miserly convenience store owner who speaks with a pronounced accent.
But despite this overall miserly attitude, the fossil record sometimes does us all a solid by setting aside an extraordinary gem.
Salaries are miserly — averaging $214 per month, according to the Ukrainian state statistics agency — and the country's infrastructure is a wreck.
Conversely, his decision to raise Mexico's miserly minimum wage nationwide, and to double it along the border, was wise and timely.
And then, on Tuesday night, that other great cornerstone of European soccer — Atlético Madrid's defense, so miserly and obdurate — came unstuck.
But the miserly gangmaster would be disappointed in the youth of today, who show markedly less interest in a life of crime.
And he has reduced the number of refugees admitted each year by three-quarters, to a miserly one for every 14,500 Americans.
One risk to stocks was the poor performance of the U.S. economy, which managed to generate a miserly 0.7 percent GDP growth.
It is offensive to the ears to hear Biden, or Hillary Clinton, cynically co-opt revolutionary rhetoric to sell these miserly ideas.
Considering that India spends a miserly 0.12% of GDP on justice, hiring enough judges to sit in courts would seem a useful investment.
Separately, Germany's security establishment fears the government's miserly defence spending will place it in Mr Trump's crosshairs at a NATO summit next month.
Mr Trump likes to link the miserly defence spending of most European countries, especially Germany, to what he considers their rapacious trade policies.
Only Arsenal, in 2005-06, reached the final in more miserly fashion, conceding two goals before falling at the final hurdle against Barcelona.
Google throws in free photo and video storage with every Pixel, whereas Apple's free iCloud allowance of 5GB feels miserly by modern standards.
This system, known as "superannuation" or "super", has not replaced public pensions altogether, but has allowed the government to make them more miserly.
Since Abe took office in late 2012, recurring profits have gone up 62.3 percent, but staff compensation has grown a miserly 2.1 percent.
Delicate, soft-spoken Julio spends a year shunted between poorly paid menial jobs, sleeping in miserly tenements while he searches for his love.
The fashion retailer was the most heavily traded stock in the FTSE 100 on a miserly day for volumes on the broader market.
Miserly consumer spending is a major worry for the RBA and many economists expect the current weakness to extend for some time yet.
You probably know the original: Dickens' A Christmas Carol tells the story of Ebenezer Scrooge, a grumpy, miserly loan shark who despises Christmas.
Yet Horn, of the New York State Sentencing Commission, said officials at the Bureau of Prisons have a "miserly" track record of granting credits.
The area is an extreme case of a wider trend, in which cities and their residents find ways to cope with miserly state governments.
I've never been a fan of that move, which would suggest that audiophiles are miserly sonic accountants instead of lovers and fans of music.
Without their mutual understanding of the sweet science of miserly defending, the famous back four might never have burst forth onto the cultural scene.
The yields on these funds can approach 4 percent — quite attractive when compared with the miserly returns that banks and government securities were offering.
Clearly, Vice-Chancellor Laster is concerned that some of his Chancery Court colleagues are getting too miserly about allowing shareholders access to corporate records.
The late-October day was peeled and cool; the light was miserly by six, the last remnants clawed in weak scratches across the sky.
By last year, the poorest 10% were still earning only a miserly 4.1% more per hour than they did (in real wages) 40 years ago.
Indeed, data out earlier showed Australia's household sector was battling miserly wage growth and subdued home prices with retail sales unexpectedly falling 0.1% in July.
In Ohio, where the poverty rate of 14.6 percent is higher than the national average, complaints about the governor's miserly spending have been especially loud.
Indeed, data out earlier showed Australia's household sector was battling miserly wage growth and subdued home prices with retail sales unexpectedly falling 0.1% in July.
Stripped of her public life, the older woman comes across as a miserly, half-delusional mommie dearest with kleptomaniac tendencies and bad taste in men.
The Ontario pilot is certainly more generous than the miserly Ontario Works welfare program, which currently gives individuals up to $343 per month to live on.
His most famous student, Aristotle, had a different opinion; his " Ars Rhetorica " contains long passages denouncing old men as miserly, cowardly, cynical, loquacious, and temperamentally chilly.
Because of my dyslexia, this thing I do—writing—has been hard won, and I feel oddly resistant, almost miserly about the advent of style transfer.
This was rather miserly of him, for Dyson knew full well the value of these letters, written to his parents from 1941 through the late 19573s.
Yet almost all the growth came from government spending and exports, with domestic consumption hamstrung by miserly wage gains and a sharp downturn in home building.
He is probably best imagined as the miserly Venetian known as Pantalone wandering around in red breeches with the oversized codpiece of the would-be womanizer.
When he attended the Rensselaer Institute, where he was deeply unhappy, his father doled out a miserly allowance, resulting in "three and a half years of starvation".
In such a system, the world's biggest hitters and most miserly bowlers might only face each other in short-form contests a handful of times a decade.
And the President does a disservice to his national security team -- not to mention our alliance -- when he speaks about something as miserly and mean as reimbursement.
He committed a miserly 12 unforced errors, blunted the 140mph first serves whizzing his way and even reduced the normally Zen-like Raonic to venting his frustration.
This burst of exuberance sent the major markets to record highs on Monday, as investors continued to pull out of government bond funds whose yields are miserly.
Though it takes a miserly number of refugees compared with many European countries, Britain's age-verification system is more rigorous than most, thinks Taimour Lay, an asylum lawyer.
My weekday routine means I save around half my daily budget for other stuff—not particularly inspiring, but a solid base from which to build my miserly empire.
Contrary to the views of some miserly economists, a college education is about far more than just money; what about those who want to maximise their *spiritual* returns?
It was always a myth—white people have always made up the majority of those receiving government checks, and if anything, benefits are too miserly, not too lavish.
The first results from the annual "shunto" wage talks between unions and major employers such as Toyota suggest staff are set for another year of miserly pay rises.
A Christmas Carol Ebenezer Scrooge is an angry, miserly money lender who feels that his employees should never have a day off and that workhouses are wasteful entitlements.
Many worry that the National Health Service (NHS), whose junior doctors are in revolt over a new contract that they consider miserly, might find it harder to attract staff.
In contrast to the blockbuster external economy, Australia's household sector is battling miserly wage growth and subdued home prices with other data showing retail sales fell 0.1% in July.
Consumers have been cash-strapped by miserly wage growth and record levels of household debt, while intense foreign competition has forced widespread discounting, undermining the dollar value of sales.
The insurance scheme's first-year budget amounts to a miserly $300m (0.01% of GDP), hardly the "world's biggest" and indeed not substantially more than was previously budgeted for health insurance.
The French-language study also found that she had been "very generous with her prayers, but for the most part miserly with her foundation's millions," in the face of disasters.
To help achieve that level it chopped interest rates twice since June to a record low of 1% as the economy grapples with subdued home prices and miserly consumer spending.
Their goal now: persuade the miserly German government to take advantage of historically low interest rates to invest in its green transition and defense, with Largarde also at their side.
To be fair, although some Homebrand items are pretty nasty, the brand carries some gems in its miserly, all-white packaging that wouldn't be quite the same without the famous name.
Major League Soccer is beginning to seem rather miserly in comparison to its Chinese counterpart, its financial sinews looking withered and scrawny next to the bulging might of the Super League.
By comparison, I know smart, talented, debt-laden millennials who graduated into a post-Great Recession job market so mean and miserly that it literally had them eating out of Dumpsters.
For this show, however, Disney may be playing down Scrooge's history of being a miserly anti-hero to make him more of a quasi-superhero figure who drives submarines and fights dragons.
His person and career are a reflection of the Mets whole organizational deal: promise and hope, miserly ownership, gross vibes, and now just a sort of wandering and perpetual sense of bafflement.
And there is little evidence that tax credits make it easier for businesses to get away with paying miserly wages: three-quarters of the benefit ends up with employees, rather than firms.
Some brokers such as Barclays and UBS have published bullish views, highlighting how some of the companies in the sector were starting to boost returns for shareholders, after years of miserly dividends.
Anyway, Mr Clement wrote, the changes are mere "miserly accommodations", as they still unjustifiably bar gun owners from stopping at a coffee shop or gas station on their way out of town.
At the close of "A Christmas Carol," after Scrooge (Campbell Scott) renounces his miserly ways and serves dinner, the company takes a bow and takes up a collection for a local charity.
Brazil's defensive record under coach Tite has been remarkable, with only six goals conceded in 25 matches, and they have been just as miserly in Russia where they have only conceded one goal.
Nor is it directly about money, even if the miserly, race-tinged funding of public schools in Mississippi and elsewhere is arguably as grave a problem for many African-Americans as mass incarceration.
How have we so quickly turned away from President Franklin D. Roosevelt's optimistic New Deal for all Americans to President Trump's mean and miserly Raw Deal for all but the top 1 percent?
This strategy may have worked well when CDs paid interest north of 103 percent, but with today's miserly rates, putting your money into CDs alone is a surefire way to go broke slowly.
Household consumption has been a major source of worry for the RBA as miserly wage growth and falling home prices eat into spending power in a sector that accounts for 56% of the economy.
A drink for the Nigel Farages and Alan Partridges of the world; the oddballs, the sour, miserly dudes who always ask me to top off their pint—no matter how much they have left.
It was one of the most visually beautiful cities I'd ever visited, as well as cheap: Tasty food, decent lodging and rich cultural experiences are well within reach of even the most miserly budget.
Jeanne learns that her husband is both miserly and chronically unfaithful, and her only son proves to be a spendthrift wastrel who depletes the family fortune, leaving her in near-poverty toward the end.
Investors may be pleased enough with the economy and earnings to excuse a harsh backdrop on trade and a miserly Fed, at least for now, but disquieting developments overseas have arisen or worsened lately.
The plane has received positive reviews, particularly for its low noise levels and miserly fuel consumption, but it entered service more than two years late and about $2 billion over budget, straining Bombardier's finances.
In particular, both books stress that, when briefed about international alliances, Trump derails discussions by griping about how allies are stiffing the U.S., from allegedly miserly NATO contributions to ostensibly one-sided trade policies.
If technological disruption was about to inflict a new and more devastating blow on traditional firms, you would expect to see lots of them with miserly valuations, as investors discounted a slump in their profits.
A joint statement by the Tottenham Hotspur Supporters Trust and Liverpool's Spirit of Shankly said the allocation was "miserly", and that it was time for consumer protection to stop firms profiting disprportionately from fan loyalty.
All the newcomers apply a rigid no-frills philosophy to keep costs down: legroom is miserly, on-board entertainment is minimal to non-existent, and optional perks like food and checked luggage attract hefty surcharges.
The miserly pace of wage growth has weighed on domestic consumption and was a major reason the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) cut interest rates in June and July to a record low of 1%.
The seeds of fissures in the alliance are not necessarily miserly interests over the cost of stationing U.S. troops in the South, but the divergent perception on the nature of the common enemy, North Korea.
Desperate for money, having quit a job where she received "miserly wages for copy white men put their names to," she works for a tour company that offers wealthy European tourists an authentic African experience.
This sense of liberation derives from murders enacted with the methodical exhilaration of a jailbreak — a cathartic response to years of oppression by her miserly father, Andrew (Jamey Sheridan), and loathed stepmother, Abby (Fiona Shaw).
And its influence has been flexed repeatedly over New York City, with the Legislature overruling the city on issues like fees for plastic bags, and granting miserly extensions of mayoral control of the city's schools.
There's a miserly host, her activist sister, her failed nature-writer son and a complete stranger hired to impersonate an ex, all of whom have their own read on faultlines past and present, personal and political.
Australia's central bank has marked two whole years with no move in interest rates, the longest policy pause in its modern history, as optimism on the economy is tempered by miserly wage growth and muted inflation.
Though the cold shoulder is grounded in the image of black and brown moochers living in the imagination of white Americans, the suffering caused by its miserly understanding of society is not limited to communities of color.
Its technology (powered by the blockchain!) would churn under dozens of independent newsrooms, its machinery creating a new, utopian model, free from the clutches of miserly businessmen or politically compromised publishers threatening to gum up the works.
Chichikov does business with a frightened widow; a miserly hoarder who picks through his own serfs' garbage; a violent, egotistic gambling addict; a kissy young couple who read English Romantic poetry while their estate goes to ruin.
Plummer's presence as J. Paul Getty winds up dominating the film, which recounts the 1973 kidnapping of Getty's 20203-year-old grandson and the tragedy that inevitably resulted when the miserly entrepreneur refused to pay the ransom.
Individuals and family members that have sued San Bernardino, California over alleged police civil rights violations sharply criticized in court papers filed on Wednesday the "miserly" payouts proposed by the city in its plan to exit bankruptcy.
"It was 2016, and Rippon was subsisting mostly on a daily diet of three slices of whole grain bread topped with miserly pats of the spread I Can't Believe It's Not Butter," Times sports reporter Karen Crouse wrote.
SYDNEY (Reuters) - Australia's economy is seen cruising at a comfortable click over the next two years courtesy of strength in jobs, business investment and public spending, though miserly wage growth and a heavily-indebted consumer lurk as threats.
Sir Martin was often viewed as a miserly bean counter by the so-called creatives at WPP, Weinstein was foul-mouthed and prone to bullying, while no one has ever seriously suggested that Wynn gained success through charm.
SYDNEY (Reuters) - Australia's central bank has marked two whole years with no move in interest rates, the longest policy pause in its modern history, as optimism on the economy is tempered by miserly wage growth and muted inflation.
Household consumption has been a major source of worry for the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) as miserly wage growth and falling home prices eat into spending power in a sector that accounts for 56% of the economy.
Or perhaps he will steadily build a much bigger stake in Apple, which is now one of the cheapest big stocks in America, trading on a miserly 11 times earnings, compared with 29 for Alphabet and 72 for Facebook.
Here I am hoping the kids would be slating me for not knowing enough about LGBT dancehall or post-vaporwave or something, and they're hyped for hearing Luke Pritchard miserly mumbling "Sofa Song" once more for old time's sake.
In a nation with a weak or miserly federal government, it may have made sense to allow states to lock out poor residents of other states so that they would have more resources to spend on their own poor.
Presented by August Strindberg Rep and recommended for theatergoers 230 and older, "Abu Casem's Slippers" is an adaptation of a tale from "The Arabian Nights" in which the title character, a stingy merchant, learns to mend his miserly ways.
Presented by August Strindberg Rep and recommended for theatergoers 8 and older, "Abu Casem's Slippers" is an adaptation of a tale from "The Arabian Nights" in which the title character, a stingy merchant, learns to mend his miserly ways.
The Hangover Imagine if you will one of the hottest days of the year, and just to be miserly, you have bought a Friday night rush-hour Megabus coach ticket to Cardiff from London instead of a train ticket.
The A5 is very much a light aircraft; my CFI and I's combined 410 pounds meant we could only fill the tank halfway to stay within weight/balance restrictions, although it's also miserly enough with fuel that that wasn't any problem.
His great-great grandfather was the cold and miserly J. Paul Getty, who was at one time the world's richest private citizen and in 1973 famously refused to pay the ransom to return his kidnapped grandson John Paul Getty III, Balthazar's father.
While the rich spend a lot in absolute terms, their spending is miserly as a share of their income, in contrast to the budget constrained non-rich, especially those who live, literally, paycheck to paycheck (assuming they have a job, of course).
Presented by August Strindberg Rep and recommended for theatergoers 8 and older, "Abu Casem's Slippers," closing this weekend, is an adaptation of a tale from "The Arabian Nights" in which the title character, a stingy merchant, learns to mend his miserly ways.
This time around the impetus is the miserly developed market interest rates that are forcing investors to look elsewhere, as well as the rebound in commodity prices and nearly $10 billion that will be looking for a home when a host of sovereign bonds mature this month.
As lowly as a debt collector's job might be, and as little as it may matter to loose such miserly position, acting on a personal way to attack or harass someone is a personal attack, for which the company is liable should they ignore complaints such as this one.
To many investors traumatized by two 50-percent market drops in the past 17 years, this bull market has been easy to denigrate — as conjured by central banks, goosed by cheap debt and share buybacks or unrepresentative of a slow-growth economy producing miserly wage gains and social unrest.
And while they did not succeed in getting Pelosi to fully back their demands—or even preventing restoration of the miserly "PAYGO" rule mandating new spending be offset by tax increases or spending cuts—it's clear that the left is dictating the debate in a way it had not previously.
For the fresh-faced Murder, She Wrote jet set, a mystery program in which Bronn and his overachieving and hitherto unseen kid sister Æliza-Byth travel the Seven Kingdoms finding lost wyverens and lost-at-sea blacksmiths, all while unmasking the spooky Night's King as the miserly owner of the haunted amusement park.
WE MUST ACT NOW to adequately fund the maintenance of these treasures, and adequately staff them, so that we are not vilified by our posterity for being the generation that was too blind to see what we had been given, and too miserly to pass these treasures intact to future generations of Americans.
In the recent low-price gas world, I've found myself dreaming about replacing my miserly compact — a little Subaru Impreza — with a more generously sized model, one with enough space for skis and boots and boxes and luggage and other assorted pieces of paraphernalia that I might want to cram into the vehicle one day.
The 26-year-old repaid his coach with superb performances in qualifying, culminating in a hat-trick in Ireland that secured qualification after they finished second to Poland in qualifying Group E. Centre-back Simon Kjaer led a miserly defense that conceded only eight goals in qualifying but despite a 4-0 thrashing of group winners Poland their attack often misfired, especially against nations they would be expected to beat.

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