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Definition of miser in English: misernoun ˈmʌɪzəˈmaɪzər A person who hoards wealth and spends as little money as possible. a typical miser, he hid his money in the house in various places Example sentencesExamples - The bureau pores over its data like a miser in his cave with his treasure.
- It is a myth that living like a miser will see you end up with a stash of gold.
- Did I just give away that I come from a long line of misers?
- Although Uncle Roger lives in a small ramshackle cottage that looks more like a rat-infested hovel, Colin believes the man is a miser, and is sure there's money that has been stashed away.
- Critics and journalists have often portrayed him as a miser or as an old lecher.
- Scrooge is a hard, cold miser who spends his days counting his profits and wishing the world would leave him alone.
- He's also a terrible miser, hoarding gold in his attic while his poor young wife - who has agreed to the arrangement only to protect her woefully indebted father - wants for the smallest pat of butter.
- How, without recording these acts of generosity, are such people to avoid the suspicion that they are misers?
- This refers to a miser, perhaps the most despised of all types in a world where generosity is the yardstick by which humanity is measured.
- Come January, I'm freezing my credit card in a block of ice and becoming a miser.
- This looked and sounded like a Chancellor who was holding on to the Treasury windfalls like a miser hoarding his coins.
- Likewise, the misers at the Department of Finance will stifle their giggles when consumer agencies start advising us to cut back and save.
- Like an old miser, however, he will give nothing away cheaply.
- In addition, you don't want children who are so concerned with delaying gratification that they wind up as misers.
- Instead, I shall bask in all this glory and hope it brings me new found arrogance, snobbery and untold riches so I can retire to Pismo Beach and be a happy miser.
- Scotland is heading towards a savings crisis according to the latest research due to be published next week, which will call into question our traditional reputation as a nation of misers.
- Once you start calculating how much fuel you are using and converting that into cash you will be halfway to becoming a fuel miser.
- Now, before you begin forming the impression that my beloved is a bad-tempered miser, I must put you straight.
- After a tension-filled pause, Benny, a notorious miser and tightwad, said, ‘I'm thinking, I'm thinking.’
- He decides instead to take over an old miser's nest egg.
Synonyms penny-pincher, pinchpenny, niggard, cheese-parer, Scrooge hoarder, saver, collector, gatherer, accumulator, magpie, squirrel ascetic, puritan informal skinflint, meanie, money-grubber, cheapskate North American informal tightwad vulgar slang tight-arse
Origin Late 15th century (as an adjective in the sense 'miserly'): from Latin, literally 'wretched'. Rhymes adviser, chastiser, coryza, despiser, deviser, divisor, Dreiser, Eliza, incisor, Kaiser, Liza, Mount Isa, provisor, reviser, riser, sizer, visor Definition of miser in US English: misernounˈmaɪzərˈmīzər A person who hoards wealth and spends as little money as possible. a typical miser, he hid his money in the house in various places Example sentencesExamples - Scotland is heading towards a savings crisis according to the latest research due to be published next week, which will call into question our traditional reputation as a nation of misers.
- The bureau pores over its data like a miser in his cave with his treasure.
- Now, before you begin forming the impression that my beloved is a bad-tempered miser, I must put you straight.
- This refers to a miser, perhaps the most despised of all types in a world where generosity is the yardstick by which humanity is measured.
- How, without recording these acts of generosity, are such people to avoid the suspicion that they are misers?
- He decides instead to take over an old miser's nest egg.
- It is a myth that living like a miser will see you end up with a stash of gold.
- Although Uncle Roger lives in a small ramshackle cottage that looks more like a rat-infested hovel, Colin believes the man is a miser, and is sure there's money that has been stashed away.
- Instead, I shall bask in all this glory and hope it brings me new found arrogance, snobbery and untold riches so I can retire to Pismo Beach and be a happy miser.
- Likewise, the misers at the Department of Finance will stifle their giggles when consumer agencies start advising us to cut back and save.
- In addition, you don't want children who are so concerned with delaying gratification that they wind up as misers.
- After a tension-filled pause, Benny, a notorious miser and tightwad, said, ‘I'm thinking, I'm thinking.’
- Come January, I'm freezing my credit card in a block of ice and becoming a miser.
- He's also a terrible miser, hoarding gold in his attic while his poor young wife - who has agreed to the arrangement only to protect her woefully indebted father - wants for the smallest pat of butter.
- Critics and journalists have often portrayed him as a miser or as an old lecher.
- Did I just give away that I come from a long line of misers?
- Scrooge is a hard, cold miser who spends his days counting his profits and wishing the world would leave him alone.
- Like an old miser, however, he will give nothing away cheaply.
- This looked and sounded like a Chancellor who was holding on to the Treasury windfalls like a miser hoarding his coins.
- Once you start calculating how much fuel you are using and converting that into cash you will be halfway to becoming a fuel miser.
Synonyms penny-pincher, pinchpenny, niggard, cheese-parer, scrooge
Origin Late 15th century (as an adjective in the sense ‘miserly’): from Latin, literally ‘wretched’. |