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A person who is stingy and miserly.
niggard
cheapskate
cheap skate
1
Our tyrant is not the satyr or the torturer; but the
miser
.
2
The kangaroo and the
miser
carry all they love in a pouch.
3
The
miser
has no friends; but the spendthrift has generally too many.
4
The round coins in the
miser
's
stocking were safe in some sense.
5
Then the cheerful old
miser
put a nickel in my blistered hand.
6
Misery is indeed the lot, if not the vice, of the
miser
.
7
He was not a curmudgeon with his money; he was no
miser
.
8
Trevethick, although a close-fisted fellow, was no
miser
in the vulgar sense.
9
And keeping the courtship close, too, for fear of the old
miser
.
10
He says it's about this
miser
who thinks about nothing but money.
11
We must be haunted by the spirit of some burglar or
miser
.
12
I call over your idea, as a
miser
counts over his treasure.
13
A few minutes more brought him in sight of the
miser
's
cottage.
14
The file showed that Alexander, a confirmed hypochondriac, was also a
miser
.
15
I imagined her counting over her grievances like a
miser
for years.
16
I know nothing whatever of them, faintly replied the startled old
miser
.
miser
old miser
rich miser
say the miser
become a miser
great miser