Crossword-Solution: MISERLY
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Miserly | a. | Like a miser; very covetous; sordid; niggardly. |
We have 63 clues for the answer “MISERLY”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Wanting as much change as possible? | 1 answer |
| Pitiably small | 1 answer |
| Like Silas Marner. | 2 answers |
| Like Jack Benny, famously | 2 answers |
| Like Scrooge McDuck | 3 answers |
| Tight-fisted | 3 answers |
| Closefisted | 5 answers |
| CLOSEFISTED ONE | 6 answers |
| Monopolistic | 6 answers |
| LIKE Scrooge | 7 answers |
| Scrooge-like. | 9 answers |
| Penny-pinching | 10 answers |
| BE STINGY | 12 answers |
| BE STINGY WITH | 14 answers |
| Niggardly | 18 answers |
| Egocentric | 23 answers |
| Plundering. | 27 answers |
| raptorial | 27 answers |
| ravening | 28 answers |
| hawklike | 28 answers |
| seamy | 29 answers |
| ravaging | 29 answers |
| predacious | 29 answers |
| grabbing | 29 answers |
| Avid | 30 answers |
| thieving | 30 answers |
| pillaging | 31 answers |
| extortionate | 32 answers |
| Inconsequential | 32 answers |
| Taking | 34 answers |
| predatory | 35 answers |
| desirous | 35 answers |
| Rapacious | 36 answers |
| insatiable | 36 answers |
| Degraded | 39 answers |
| Voracious | 40 answers |
| Acquisitive | 40 answers |
| Ungenerous | 41 answers |
| penurious | 42 answers |
| Parsimonious | 42 answers |
| notorious | 43 answers |
| Egotistic | 44 answers |
| Gluttonous | 44 answers |
| avaricious | 44 answers |
| greedy | 45 answers |
| Ignominious | 46 answers |
| Mercenary | 47 answers |
| Stingy | 51 answers |
| discreditable | 51 answers |
| Ignoble | 52 answers |
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Hint 2 anagram
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Sentences with MISERLY (5)
And they are miserly because they have no means of openly acquiring the money which they prize; they will spend that which is another man's on the gratification of their desires, stealing their pleasures and running away like children from the law, their father: they have been schooled not by gentle influences but by force, for they have neglected her who is the true Muse, the companion of reason and philosophy, and have honoured gymnastic more than music.
Not that he cares particularly what becomes of his miserly master--but he does dislike taking other people's responsibilities on his own shoulders.
Tiny audits Lena’s accounts occasionally, and invests her money for her; and Lena, apparently, takes care that Tiny doesn’t grow too miserly.
The penurious, parsimonious, and miserly save money by disgraceful selfÐdenial, and the niggardly by meanness in their dealing with others.
Some Englishmen--those strange travellers, who are at the same time so foolishly prodigal and so ridiculously miserly--were making a great hue and cry over the four sous gratuity claimed by a poor commissionaire; but these were the only persons in sight.
Quotes with MISERLY (3)
The moment you become miserly you are closed to the basic phenomenon of life: expansion, sharing. The moment you start clinging to things, you have missed the target--you have missed. Because things are not the target, you, your innermost being, is the target--not a beautiful house, but a beautiful you; not much money, but a rich you; not many things, but an open being, available to millions of things.
Did everyone make the most ghastly blunders at regularly intervals through their life and live to regret them ever afterward? Was everyone's life filled with confusing and contradictory mix of guilt and innocence, hatred and love, concern and unconcern, and any number of other pairings of polar opposites? Or were most people one thing or the other - good or bad, cheerful or crotchety, generous or miserly, and so on.
It was a tale well known to children all over Africa: Abu Kassem, a miserly Baghdad merchant, had held on to his battered, much repaired pair of slippers even though they were objects of derision. At last, even he couldn't stomach the sight of them. But his every attempt to get rid of his slippers ended in disaster: when he tossed them out of his window they landed on the head of a pregnant woman who miscarried, and Abu Kassem was thrown in jail; when he dropped them in the c…
Where this answer appears
Appears in: Newsday, NY Sun, NYT, S&S, Three Across, WSJ.
Used 17 times in crossword archives (1968–2018).