miserly

• “Proclaimed one particularly prosperous-looking woman who floated past our table on the way to raise some boat dealer's bottom line, "It's about time we spent on ourselves again ... being miserly is no fun at all!”

  The Huffington Post: Lita Smith-Mines: The Ebbs & Flows of the Economy

• “No one uses the word “niggardly” in politics any more, no matter what degree of stinginess or miserly is intended.”

  Think Progress » Memorandum To Tony Snow On The Use Of The Term ‘Tar Baby’

• “It also clearly illuminates where the line is, and why calling a miserly person a "Jew" is an insult (because the insinuation of miserliness is derogatory) whereas saying Asians like rice is not (because there's no derogatory insinuation).”

  "We, in former times, constantly made jokes about different races."

• “Restaurateurs know that many people won't order the cheapest wine on the list for fear of appearing miserly, which is why the second-cheapest wine on the list is often the worst deal.”

  The Wall Street Journal: For 2009, a To-Do List for Wine

• “He was miserly, which is a different thing altogether.”

  Simon & Schuster: More Sex Is Safer Sex

• “The miserly is the miserable man, who hoards money from a love of it.”

  Architects of Fate or, Steps to Success and Power

• “He was thrifty bourgeois too; so often called miserly as well as malicious that it is pleasant to remember certain illustrations of his nobler side.”

  Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 5

• “Though Liverpool have not been what you can describe as miserly in terms of making big signings - the club record fee was broken three times and five purchases in excess of £17m were made - there has always been a sense that the books have needed balancing.”

  Football.co.uk news feed

• “Then there was the case of an aide to the mayor of Washington, D.C., who was required to resign in 1989 after he offended a black colleague by saying he would have "to be niggardly" in dispensing monies from a particular fund, although niggardly comes from a Scandinavian word meaning "miserly" and has nothing to do with the other one.”

  The Huffington Post: Hugh Rawson: Mark Twain's Language: "Bad" Words Then and Now

• “The type spelled out words commonly regarded as good or bad, such as "miserly" or "dishonest.”

  Newsweek: What's So Good About Remembering the Bad?

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