All miserly synonyms
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M m adj miserly
- tightfisted — parsimonious; stingy; tight.
- abject — You use abject to emphasize that a situation or quality is extremely bad.
- avaricious — An avaricious person is very greedy for money or possessions.
- beggarly — meanly inadequate; very poor
- churlish — Someone who is churlish is unfriendly, bad-tempered, or impolite.
- close — When you close something such as a door or lid or when it closes, it moves so that a hole, gap, or opening is covered.
- covetous — A covetous person has a strong desire to possess something, especially something that belongs to another person.
- grasping — greedy; avaricious: a sly, grasping man.
- ignoble — of low character, aims, etc.; mean; base: his ignoble purposes.
- illiberal — narrowminded; bigoted.
- mean — to intend for a particular purpose, destination, etc.: They were meant for each other. Synonyms: destine, foreordain.
- parsimonious — characterized by or showing parsimony; frugal or stingy.
- penny-pinching — a miserly, niggardly, or stingy person.
- penurious — extremely stingy; parsimonious; miserly.
- skinflint — a mean, niggardly person; miser.
- sordid — morally ignoble or base; vile: sordid methods.
- ungenerous — stingy; niggardly; miserly: an ungenerous portion; an ungenerous employer.
- cheapskate — If you say that someone is a cheapskate, you think that they are mean and do not like spending money.
- close-fisted — very careful with money; mean
adjective miserly
- stingy — having a sting.
- miserable — wretchedly unhappy, uneasy, or uncomfortable: miserable victims of war.
- niggardly — reluctant to give or spend; stingy; miserly.
- tight — firmly or closely fixed in place; not easily moved; secure: a tight knot.
- mingy — mean and stingy; niggardly.
- greedy — excessively or inordinately desirous of wealth, profit, etc.; avaricious: the greedy owners of the company.
- measly — Informal. contemptibly small, meager, or slight: They paid me a measly fifteen dollars for a day's work. wretchedly bad or unsatisfactory: a measly performance.
- paltry — ridiculously or insultingly small: a paltry sum.
- derisory — If you describe something such as an amount of money as derisory, you are emphasizing that it is so small or inadequate that it seems silly or not worth considering.
- meager — deficient in quantity or quality; lacking fullness or richness; scanty; inadequate: a meager salary; meager fare; a meager harvest.
- piddling — amounting to very little; trifling; negligible: a piddling sum of money.
adverb miserly
- parsimoniously — characterized by or showing parsimony; frugal or stingy.
- selfishly — devoted to or caring only for oneself; concerned primarily with one's own interests, benefits, welfare, etc., regardless of others.
- greedily — excessively or inordinately desirous of wealth, profit, etc.; avaricious: the greedy owners of the company.
- cannily — in a canny manner
- meanly — moderately.
- illiberally — In an illiberal manner.
- stingily — reluctant to give or spend; not generous; niggardly; penurious: He's a stingy old miser.