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[syn: mean, mingy, miserly, tight]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Miserly \Mi"ser*ly\ (m[imac]"z[~e]r*l[y^]), a. [From Miser.]
Like a miser; very covetous; avaricious; stingy; sordid;
niggardly.
[1913 Webster]
Syn: Avaricious; niggardly; sordid; parsimonious; avaricious;
penurious; covetous; stingy; mean. See Avaricious.
[1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
miserly
adj 1: (used of persons or behavior) characterized by or
indicative of lack of generosity; "a mean person"; "he
left a miserly tip" [syn: mean, mingy, miserly,
tight]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
119 Moby Thesaurus words for "miserly":
Lenten, Spartan, a hog for, abject, abstemious, acquisitive,
all-devouring, ascetic, austere, avaricious, avid, bottomless,
cheap, cheeseparing, chinchy, chintzy, close, closefisted,
coveting, covetous, devouring, dwarfed, dwarfish, esurient,
exiguous, frugal, gluttonous, gobbling, grabby, grasping, greedy,
hardfisted, hoggish, ignoble, illiberal, impoverished, infrequent,
insatiable, insatiate, jejune, lean, limited, limitless, meager,
mean, mercenary, mingy, money-hungry, money-mad, narrow, near,
niggardly, omnivorous, overgreedy, paltry, parsimonious,
penny-pinching, penurious, piddling, piggish, pinchfisted,
pinching, poor, puny, quenchless, rapacious, rare, ravening,
ravenous, save-all, scant, scanty, scarce, scattered, scrawny,
scrimp, scrimping, scrimpy, seldom met with, seldom seen, skimp,
skimping, skimpy, slakeless, slender, slight, slim, small, sordid,
spare, sparing, sparse, spotty, sprinkled, starvation, stingy,
stinted, straitened, stunted, subsistence, swinish, thin, tight,
tight-fisted, tightfisted, unappeasable, unappeased, ungenerous,
unnourishing, unnutritious, unquenchable, unsated, unsatisfied,
unslakeable, unslaked, venal, voracious, watered, watery