miserliness
121covetousness — n 1. desire, greed, graspingness, acquisitiveness, Sl. grabbiness, avariciousness, rapacity, rapaciousness; selfishness, self seeking, egocentricity, self interest, self indulgence; miserliness, penuriousness, parsimony, niggardliness; stinginess …
122cupidity — n 1. greed, graspingness, acquisitiveness, Sl. grabbiness, avariciousness, rapacity, rapa ciousness; selfishness, miserliness, penuriousness, parsimony, niggardliness; stinginess, meanness, close fist edness, tight fistedness, mercenariness,… …
123economy — n 1. husbandry, thrifty management, conservation; conserving, saving, economizing; thrift, thriftiness, frugality, frugalness, sparingness; scrimping, skimping, penny pinching, cutting corners, tightening one s belt, making ends meet; parsimony,… …
124frugality — n 1. sparingness, frugalness, thrift, thriftiness; husbandry, careful management, conservation; conserving, saving, economizing, economy; moderation, temperance, self control, self restraint; abstemiousness, abstinence, abstention, self denial,… …
125greed — n 1. avarice, graspingness, acquisitiveness, Sl. grabbiness, rapaciousness; selfishness, miserliness, penuriousness, parsimony, niggardliness; stinginess, meanness, closefistedness, tight fistedness; mercenariness, venality. 2. ravenousness,… …
126meagerness — n 1. scarceness, scantiness, scantness, exiguity, shortness; want, lack, need, stint, scarcity, poverty, paucity; poorness, inadequacy, insufficiency; bareness, slightness, skimpiness, scrimpiness; puniness, paltriness, pettiness, piddlingness,… …
127meanness — n 1. baseness, lowness, ignobility, ig nobleness; dishonorableness, disreputability, disreputableness, disgracefulness; shabbiness, unfairness, injustice; contemptibility, contemptibleness, despicableness, scurviness, vileness, abjectness;… …
128niggardliness — n 1. parsimony, miserliness, penu riousness, meanness, churlishness, nearness; stinginess, tightness, tight fistedness, closefistedness, closeness, closehandedness, cheapness, Sl. chintziness. 2. scrimpiness, shabbiness, grudgingness, begrudg… …
