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Synonyms:
- stinting, possessive, fuddled, beggarly, ascetically, cockeyed, delicate, penitential, thrifty, tiny, wet, minimally, stark, few, meager, stringent, slopped, petite, sordid, minimal, abstinently, sparsely, nugatory, hermit-like, teetotaling, diminutive, Trappist, slightly, austere, tight, narrow-fisted, give, minor, usurious, picayune, nasty, greedy, hoarding, bantam, grasping, spotty, cheeseparing, economic, modestly, rapacious, selfish, skimpily, austerely, Spartan, scrawny, abstemiously, starkly, compact, scarcely, severe, chintzy, close-fisted, inadequately, modest, barely, stoically, smashed, puny, scanty, teensy, delicately, penurious, pissed, piddling, study at stingy, minimum, plastered, stiff, money-grubbing, pinching, miniature, acquisitive, flyspeck, paltry, mercenary, lenten, sparingly, careful, rigorous, pie-eyed, scant, teeny-weeny, compressed, smallish, thriftily, petty, negligibly, monastic, stingy, uncharitable, sparing, skimpy, shortly, scantily, covetous, parsimonious, poor, stingily, compactly, tightly, sloshed, pocket, thrift, triflingly, trifling, insufficient, paltrily, mere, bastardly, hard-fisted, economies, niggardly, small, minute, frugally, teeny, minutely, toy, short, baby, besotted, meagerly, mean, parsimoniously, cadging, insufficiently, cheap, closefisted, dwarfish, sparse, soaked, frugal, stoic, meanly, pettily, blotto, blind drunk, dry, squiffy, mingy, monopolistic, celibate, slim, punily, scarce, base, economical, niggard, abstemious, ungenerous, poorly, pixilated, repentant, soused, deficiently, crocked, monastically, taut, inadequate, penny-pinching, venal, microscopic, loaded, deficient, slight, average, ascetic, only, sozzled, close, weeny, abstinent, avaricious, Franciscan, costive, negligible, slimly, severely, spare, hateful, pinchpenny, wee, meanspirited, little, tightfisted, itty-bitty
Examples:
- - A man may be miserly with his money, but no man can be miserly with love. - "The Jericho Road", W. Bion Adkins
- - He wanted his five shillings for presents for his family; and for these reasons, and not because he was miserly, he did not offer to excuse Holt's debt; which it would have been more generous to have done. - "The Crofton Boys", Harriet Martineau
- - But I had done it for mine own advantage, not for that of the miserly friend who had been too great a coward to risk his own skin for the sake of his beloved. - "Castles in the Air", Baroness Emmuska Orczy
Antonyms:
- benevolent, good-hearted, overgenerous, bounteous, humanitarian, generous, openhearted, munificent, charitable, philanthropic, freehanded, thriftless, spendthrift, bountiful, splurging, magnanimous, free, beneficent, prodigal, dissipating, kindly, liberal, unthrifty, wasting, openhanded, lavish, compassionate, squandering, extravagant, unstinting, wasteful, hospitable, selfless, profuse, profligate, greathearted, unsparing, unselfish, handsome, altruistic, frittering
