miserliness

• “Thus, miserliness is more than the English word stinginess.”

  Mind and Mental Factors: The Fifty-one Types of Subsidiary Awareness

• “Seattle Post-Intelligencer article reported that, due to the "miserliness" of Clark County, defense lawyers handling three out of five of Clark County's death-penalty cases had been either disbarred or arrested.”

  Washblog - Front Page

• “It appropriates poverty funds with miserliness and grudging reluctance.”

  The Huffington Post: Richard (RJ) Eskow: Today's Visionary, Not Yesterday's Celebrity: Martin Luther King, Jr.'s Words With Contemporary Images

• “He notes that he looked "to those twelve Caesars so mistreated by Suetonius," in the hope of emulating the best of each: "the clear-sightedness of Tiberius, without his harshness; the learning of Claudius without his weakness; Nero's taste for the arts, but stripped of all foolish vanity; the kindness of Titus, stopping short of his sentimentality; Vespasian's thrift, but not his absurd miserliness.”

  The Wall Street Journal: Portrait of Power Embodied in a Roman Emperor

• “The return of Andy Reid, who delighted the Trent End during dark days under Joe Kinnear, gives McClaren an old-fashioned playmaker with a sublime range of passing but sadly Forest jettisoned the ideal striker to exploit Reid's creative gifts, Norwich's prolific Grant Holt, in a wanton act of miserliness three years ago.”

  The Guardian: Championship: McClaren and Eriksson lead the upwardly mobile set | Rob Bagchi

• “In some churches, the miserliness rate is even higher.”

  RNB Religion Roundup: Ted Haggard, Billy Graham, Scientology, UFOs and a haunted hospital…

• “So social, at times I wonder if they really understand the inherent loneliness -- even miserliness -- of the profession they appear to have chosen.”

  The Huffington Post: Melanie Benjamin: Just Say No to Everyone But the Voices in Your Head

• “Painfully, we learned of his racism, his supposed miserliness and misogyny, the juggling of his women, the porn, the booze, the wanking.”

  The Guardian: In search of the real Philip Larkin

• “The best anecdotes always involved the camera persons, their miserliness, their profligacy with the company's money ( "To hire of camel"), their thick-skinned insouciance on matters of taste or tact.”

  The Guardian: Why staff photographers are so important to popular newspapers

• “King is by all accounts a generous and polite man, and perhaps he's puzzled by what looks like miserliness and rudeness in another, especially from a fellow writer who shares so many of his political and social views.”

  Daniel Krotz: Shooting Fish in a Barrel: Stephen King and Under the Dome

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