miserly

Perhaps he himself was growing a little miserly in this matter.

As a miserly person I hate a lot of things.

Since 1985, it has produced a miserly 1.7 percent a year.

Second, the house is miserly with its openings to the outside.

My media company was always too miserly to let me have one for touring.

The other half of the time, you have insulted them by being miserly.

That house was the one luxury the miserly old man allowed himself.

Miserly as ever, Ring was using the situation to get a further return for the money that he had already paid.

For that reason they were forced to be very miserly with their few possessions.

This I have done so that no one could think you mean and miserly."

I think he was a little miserly sometimes, though.

On the contrary, she began to get miserly as her bank account grew.

Some people did accept a Government offer - considered miserly by many here - of money and a new apartment.

Maybe they were afraid of one day being poor, and suddenly needing what was put away so miserly.

Magazines have suggested that the Baron and his wife are miserly.

Trade is the main escape from jobs that pay miserly wages six months late.

She tells him that not paying her bride price is mean and miserly.

For years, the sky had been miserly with rain.

Within himself, he still felt mean and miserly, but his deeds proclaimed otherwise.

A miserly one must have saved enough so that he can afford to be generous.

He appointed a new financial manager, whom his followers saw as miserly.

He watched as she added a miserly drop of cream to her coffee.

People who have money in the realm of abundance tend not to be miserly about it.

With such miserly pay, many of them hold several jobs at once, and spend the week rushing from one campus to the next.

Your happiness, my dear, must not depend on his miserly old father.