miserliness

  • 101penury — pen·u·ry || penjÉ™rɪ / jÊŠr n. poverty, indigence; stinginess, miserliness …

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  • 102stinginess — sting·i·ness || stɪndʒɪnɪs n. quality of being stingy, lack of generosity, parsimoniousness, miserliness …

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  • 103ungenerousness — n. quality of being ungenerous, miserliness, stinginess …

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  • 104Personality Disorders —    Even though upsetting behavior is as old as the human condition, systematic attention to disorders of the personality appears relatively late in the development of psychiatry. On the whole, the asylum generation of psychiatrists had little to… …

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  • 105miserly — adjective 1》 of or characteristic of a miser. 2》 (of a quantity) pitiably small. Derivatives miserliness noun …

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  • 106penny-pinching — adjective unwilling to spend money; miserly. noun miserliness. Derivatives penny pincher noun …

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  • 107churlishness — n. 1. Rudeness, incivility, roughness, brutishness. 2. Crabbedness, moroseness, sullenness, tartness, acrimony, acerbity, asperity, harshness, bitterness, ill temper. 3. Niggardliness, stinginess, penuriousness, closeness, meanness, miserliness,… …

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  • 108parsimony — n. Stinginess, niggardliness, penuriousness, avarice, covetousness, cupidity, meanness, closeness, miserliness, frugality, economy, illiberality, savingness …

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  • 109miserly — adjective 1 a miserly amount, salary etc is one that is much too small: a miserly 4% pay rise 2 a miserly person is one who hates spending money miserliness noun (U) misery / mIzri/ noun 1 (C, U) great suffering or discomfort, caused for example… …

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  • 110benevolence — noun the benevolence of local businesses Syn: kindness, kindheartedness, bigheartedness, goodness, goodwill, charity, altruism, humanitarianism, compassion, philanthropy; generosity, magnanimity, munificence, unselfishness, openhandedness,… …

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