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What does miserly mean?

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Adjective
  1. Like a miser; very covetous; stingy; cautious with money
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On the other hand, his wife was a miserly woman who had no interest in feeding hungry street beggars.
It is ridiculous to say that I was being miserly where the Royal British Legion is concerned.
A garage wine in the true sense, the 1.4 hectare vineyard yields a miserly 4,000 bottles in a good vintage.
Its consumers have been key engines of global growth, continuing their spendthrift ways even when the rest of the world turned miserly.
Honda's second-generation technology enables this Civic to achieve miserly fuel economy without being a flimsy little econobox.
The senator accused the Australian Government of being miserly with its earthquake relief fund.

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