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How to use miser in a sentence

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Sentence Examples
He is a power-hungry miser, a greedy manipulator of people, who robs the inhabitants of the town of which he is mayor.
It is a myth that living like a miser will see you end up with a stash of gold.
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.
This looked and sounded like a Chancellor who was holding on to the Treasury windfalls like a miser hoarding his coins.
The miser is at times depicted as an unhappy man bringing misery not only to himself but also to others.
The bureau pores over its data like a miser in his cave with his treasure.
But you do not have to be a coin-collector or a miser to enjoy the British Museum's newly refurbished money gallery.
I'm all for being a miser, but not if it makes you miserable.
China is in the odd position of being cast as both miser and wanton. Even an extravagance like Kangbashi is best understood as an attempt to soak up saving.
If you have ever been accused of getting up on the wrong side of the bed because, frankly, you are a miserable, caffeine-starved miser in the morning, then that person may be onto something, according to a new study.
The next stanza, Quid sum miser, develops a short variation on the Dies irae melody, a subtle transformation of timbres, due to the unusual match of the English horn, strings and solo tenor.
Yes, call me a Stingy Scrooge because in that situation, I was being a Miser to the extreme.
Examples from Classical Literature
The alley hugged itself in the joyful sensation that it had a miser and his hoard in the cockloft.
Robert was right in calling him a miser, but he had not always deserved the name.
He clutched it avariciously, looked at it as a miser looks at gold, and thrust it into his shirt bosom.
He was a man of endless secret benevolence, and posed all the time as a hard-fisted person and a miser.
It might be impossible to make impression on the miserliness of a miser, but upon the honesty in a miser it might be possible!
And he put his joy in the scorn of men, as the miser shuts his gold in a cedarn chest, locked with a triple lock.
You will live long, if you act like the miser who, bit by bit, crumb by crumb, collects and heaps up diamonds and gold.
Perhaps it is merely a story of a miser and his daughter's dowry.
He had earned for himself the reputation of an awful skinflint, of a miser in the matter of living.
But you know the old man has become a miser, and makes money his idol.
A man may value what is his own without being a miser or a churl.
He had been all his life collecting his library, book and book, and he lived it as a miser loves his hoarded gold.
He was such an inborn miser that the bare prospect of being liberal in theory only daunted him.
He went to gride, too, but the hideous old miser only sneered at him.
It is the incarnation of a hard-hearted, hard-fisted, hard-voiced miser.
March would not leave Beth's side, but rested in the big chair, waking often to look at, touch, and brood over her child, like a miser over some recovered treasure.
Not as a miser had he collected these heads, and not as a miser counting his secret hoard did he ponder these heads, unwrapped, held in his two hands or lying on his knees.
This was only a friendly Raveloe-way of jesting with the half-crazy oddities of a miser, but it had perhaps helped to throw Silas into a more than usually excited state.
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