Synonyms:
mean, mingy, miserly, tight
Meaning: (used of persons or behavior) characterized by or indicative of lack of generosity; "a mean person"; "he left a miserly tip"
Usage examples
"Was he miserly?" some one asked.
He was very far from being miserly, though keenly intent upon accumulation.
Always I would think that if you had not been hard and miserly this same money would have saved my mother's life.
The wooded peaks, the impressive promontories of solemn granite, the beautiful green slants of bank and ravine did all they could to reconcile Okochee to the delinquency of miserly gold.
Scattered around were mighty trees, but conspicuous above any, in the very center, was a giant sycamore, split at its base into three large trees, whose waving branches seemed to sweep the face of heaven, and whose roots, like miserly fingers, clutched deep into the black muck of Rainbow Bottom.
In giving the senate an account of his mission, one of the ambassadors, Dominic of Treviso, drew the following portrait of Louis XII.: "The king is in stature tall and thin, and temperate in eating, taking scarcely anything but boiled beef; he is by nature miserly and retentive; his great pleasure is hawking; from September to April he hawks.