Crossword-Solution: MISER
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Miser | n. | A wretched person; a person afflicted by any great misfortune. |
| Miser | n. | A despicable person; a wretch. |
| Miser | n. | A covetous, grasping, mean person; esp., one having wealth, who lives miserably for the sake of saving and increasing his hoard. |
| Miser | n. | A kind of large earth auger. |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| MISER | anagram | EMIRS, IMERS, IMRES, MEIRS, MERIS, MESIR, MIERS, MIRES, REIMS, REMIS, RIEMS, RIMES, SIMER, SMIRE |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
EETAR
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with MISER (5)
The Miser A MISER sold all that he had and bought a lump of gold, which he buried in a hole in the ground by the side of an old wall and went to look at daily.
She told old Brunot, the miser, that he would lose all his money, marry a girl of sixteen, and live happily on a crust.
The Miser and His Gold Once upon a time there was a Miser who used to hide his gold at the foot of a tree in his garden; but every week he used to go and dig it up and gloat over his gains.
Scarcely thirty steps, all told, must I take, and yet it seemed to my overwrought imagination that that farther wall was miles away; but at last I reached it, nor once had I taken my eyes from the back of the old miser’s head.
You satisfy an assassin’s conscience in one way, a philanthropist’s in another, a miser’s in another, a burglar’s in still another.
Quotes with MISER (3)
Silence the angry man with love. Silence the ill-natured man with kindness. Silence the miser with generosity. Silence the liar with truth.
The sea had jeeringly kept his finite body up, but drowned the infinite of his soul. Not drowned entirely, though. Rather carried down alive to wondrous depths, where strange shapes of the unwarped primal world glided to and fro before his passive eyes; and the miser-merman, Wisdom, revealed his hoarded heaps; and among the joyous, heartless, ever-juvenile eternities, Pip saw the multitudinous, God-omnipresent, coral insects, that out of the firmament of waters heaved the col…
To them, as to Magnus, time was like rain, glittering as it fell, changing the world, but something that could also be taken for granted. Until you loved a mortal. Then time became gold in a miser's hands, every bright year counted out carefully, infinitely precious, and each one slipping through your fingers.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: Boston Globe, Chronicle, Crossroads, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, New Yorker, NY Sun, NYT, S&S, Three Across, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.
Used 300 times in crossword archives (1951–2025).