Crossword-Solution: MISER 5 letters, 170 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 7

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Word Word Type Definition
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
MISER anagram EMIRS, IMERS, IMRES, MEIRS, MERIS, MESIR, MIERS, MIRES, REIMS, REMIS, RIEMS, RIMES, SIMER, SMIRE

We have 170 clues for the answer “MISER”

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"Death and the ___" (Bosch painting in the National Gallery of Art) 1 answer
"Eagle-squeezer" 1 answer
Assumed role of Jack Benny. 1 answer
Benny's impersonation. 1 answer
Benny's role. 1 answer
Big spender's opposite 1 answer
C. Montgomery Burns, for one 1 answer
Cheap chap 1 answer
Cheapie 1 answer
Cheeseparing one. 1 answer
Clusterfist 1 answer
Dough hoarder 1 answer
Dough nut? 1 answer
Ebenezer (!) Balfour, in "Kidnapped" 1 answer
Ebenezer Scrooge, for one 1 answer
El cheapo 1 answer
Extreme penny-pincher 1 answer
Fourth circle of hell inhabitant, in Dante 1 answer
Generous one? No, U-turn 1 answer
Hardly a philanthropist 1 answer
Hardly a spendthrift 1 answer
Hardly an oversharer 1 answer
Hardly the prodigal type 1 answer
Harpagon, e.g. 1 answer
Harpagon, for instance 1 answer
He's literally a wretch 1 answer
Heat ___ ("The Year Without a Santa Claus" character) 1 answer
Hoarder of wealth 1 answer
Jack Benny persona 1 answer
Jack Benny's pretended role. 1 answer
Jack Benny's radio role. 1 answer
Jack Benny's role. 1 answer
Lover of money. 1 answer
Lucre lover 1 answer
Man of rare gifts? 1 answer
Penny-pinching hoarder 1 answer
Marner or Scrooge 1 answer
Marner, for one 1 answer
Marner-like individual. 1 answer
Molière comedy, with "The" 1 answer
Molière's Harpagon 1 answer
Molière's Harpagon, e.g. 1 answer
Molière's Harpagon, for one 1 answer
Money grubber. 1 answer
Money hoarder 1 answer
Money saver 1 answer
Money saver to the extreme 1 answer
Money-grubbing cheapskate 1 answer
Muckworm 1 answer
Nickel nurser 1 answer
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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.
Aesop’s Fables Aesop 2000
She told old Brunot, the miser, that he would lose all his money, marry a girl of sixteen, and live happily on a crust.
O Pioneers! Willa Cather 1991
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.
The Fables of Aesop Aesop 1992
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.
The Warlord of Mars Edgar Rice Burroughs 1993
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.
What Is Man? And Other Stories Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens) 1993

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.
Gautama Buddha
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…
Herman Melville Moby-Dick or, The Whale
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.
Cassandra Clare The Bane Chronicles
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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).