The result is ongoing competition and conflict and the valorization of generosity and condemnation of miserliness and envy. |
What explains this institutional miserliness at the very top of Britain's wealth tree? |
Around him in his lifetime grew legends of wealth, miserliness, misogyny, and efficiency, some of which had a basis in truth. |
The government's miserliness was quickly exposed by donations from ordinary citizens. |
Scrooge has been immortalised in the English language as the epitome of miserliness and meanness of spirit. |
The presence of a collector at the church-gate annoys them because it's another reminder of their miserliness. |