What is "miserliness"

Usage examples of "miserliness".

As for miserliness, if they bought the information about it from Outsiders, well, we know the Outsiders do not sell information cheaply.

The mental ability to organize, arrange and acquire things overbalances, leading us into greed, miserliness, and manipulation of other people in order to acquire more than we need and to achieve our own selfish ends.

And had combined that miserliness, Antonina was quite certain, with frequent solicitations.

She knew that it would not be easy to submit to his miserliness, or the foolishness of his premature appearance of age, or his maniacal sense of order, or his eagerness to ask for everything and give nothing at all in return, but despite all this, no man was better company because no other man in the world was so in need of love.

Paris by an aunt, whose miserliness or poverty often sent her hungry to bed.

In college, a group of us in the dorm used to conduct 278 THE LAWS OF OUR FATHERS Legendary Cheap Contests, exploring a strange common ground in which we matched, competitively, the miserliness of our parents.

Out of patience, I harangued him on the subjects both of his miserliness and of his contempt for Graduation, declaring that even if Bray were a genuine Grand Tutor and the ground of his Certification valid -- neither of which was the case -- he Ira Hector was flunked nonetheless.

He would not have admitted as miserliness the warm feeling that stole over him every night as he lay down to sleep, smiling from the knowledge that all round him, filling two oak-veneered sale-bargain bedroom suites, was a ton or two of negotiable paper.

The mental ability to organize, arrange and acquire things overbalances, leading us into greed, miserliness, and manipulation of other people in order to acquire more than we need and to achieve our own selfish ends.