miserliness

Thus, miserliness is more than the English word stinginess.

Mind and Mental Factors: The Fifty-one Types of Subsidiary Awareness 2006

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 2008

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."

Portrait of Power Embodied in a Roman Emperor Joseph Epstein 2010

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.

Championship: McClaren and Eriksson lead the upwardly mobile set | Rob Bagchi 2011

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

Melanie Benjamin: Just Say No to Everyone But the Voices in Your Head Melanie Benjamin 2011

In some churches, the miserliness rate is even higher.

RNB Religion Roundup: Ted Haggard, Billy Graham, Scientology, UFOs and a haunted hospital… 2009

It appropriates poverty funds with miserliness and grudging reluctance.

Richard (RJ) Eskow: Today's Visionary, Not Yesterday's Celebrity: Martin Luther King, Jr.'s Words With Contemporary Images RJ 2011

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

Melanie Benjamin: Just Say No to Everyone But the Voices in Your Head Melanie Benjamin 2011

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

In search of the real Philip Larkin 2010

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.

Why staff photographers are so important to popular newspapers 2010