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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • adjective Of, relating to, or characteristic of a miser; avaricious or penurious.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Like a miser; penurious; sordid; niggardly; parsimonious: as, a miserly person, or a person of miserly habits.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective Like a miser; very covetous; avaricious; stingy; sordid; niggardly.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adjective Like a miser; very covetous; stingy; cautious with money

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • adjective (used of persons or behavior) characterized by or indicative of lack of generosity

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