But let it be remembered that thrift is not parsimony not miserliness.

I ought to have seen through your father's affectation of miserliness and indifference.

One poor quality the PM does share with the former Labour leader is miserliness.

What she had called miserliness was really prudence and thrift and other pleasant-sounding virtues.

He wishes to emphasize the cold miserliness of this man.

But miserliness or avariciousness is a different thing from economy.

This customary jest about the servant's miserliness made him laugh.

The doctor's miserliness was not mere talk; it was real, and it had an object.

Now some sins are contraries, as wastefulness and miserliness.

Or is it the very meanest miserliness, that he may keep you all to himself?

Hence by sinning with the vice of wastefulness he is freed from the sin of miserliness.

He is vulnerable to reason there-alwaysa few grains of common-sensein an ounce of miserliness.

But then, old Jacob Patterson was noted as much for his surliness as for his miserliness.

Therefore, let Desire, cupidity, thirst, miserliness avoid me.

So it was not miserliness; it was just a peculiarity, a curious attention to a trifling detail.

I won't say any more, except that all the miserliness in the world was in this man.