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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.
On top of that, not only do the miserly beggars want the land for free, but they want it exempt from transfer tax.
It is ridiculous to say that I was being miserly where the Royal British Legion is concerned.
Honda's second-generation technology enables this Civic to achieve miserly fuel economy without being a flimsy little econobox.
Old men, conscious that they are about to leave the good things of the world, are grasping and miserly.
A garage wine in the true sense, the 1.4 hectare vineyard yields a miserly 4,000 bottles in a good vintage.

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