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Miser
"Miser" in a Sentence (13 examples)
A miser hoards money not because he is prudent but because he is greedy.
What a miser you are!
It is true he is rich, but he is a miser.
The miser opened the box to find his money stolen.
Late in life the miser learned to be generous with money.
My neighbor is a penny-pinching old miser who won't even give you the time of day.
After his change of heart, the former miser became unstinting in his generosity to the poor.
A poor man misses many things, but a miser misses everything.
Tom is an old miser.
Tom is a miser.
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Scrooge was a typical miser: spending nothing he could save, nor enjoying his wealth.
[…] foꝛ it was many times notoꝛious vnto al mẽ, yͭ he did eate in his houſe no other fleſh by the ſpace of iii. dayes, but on Hare, whiche was ſent him. He was ſuch a miſer to ſpend, ⁊ ſo deſirous to hooꝛd and lay vp money, yͭ had it not béene foꝛ ſome dayes of ſacrifices, oꝛ his bidden gueſts, not a moꝛsel of fleſh was eaten in his houſe: but only fed of his pꝛouiſion from his garden.
[…] a poore virgin ſir, an il-fauor’d thing ſir, but mine owne, a poore humour of mine ſir, to take that that no man elſe will: rich honeſtie dwels like a miſer ſir, in a poore houſe, as your Pearle in your foule oyſter.
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