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Significados de miserliness en inglés
Extreme reluctance to spend money.
Sinónimos
Examples for "meanness"
Examples for "meanness"
1
The life of the cloister is far from the meanness of life.
2
There's a lot of meanness going on in the world, she said.
3
The meanness of regulating our conduct by the opinions of men 186.
4
They are consequent and natural, and our kindness and meanness both manly.
5
These extremes of extravagance and meanness were not unusual in his practice.
1
Goodness-of-fit, parsimony and robustness under misspecification were used to identify candidate models.
2
About the staging of the play there was a right Shakespearian parsimony.
3
Gifts are the last thing you expect after rehearsing for sheer parsimony.
4
But let it be remembered that thrift is not parsimony not miserliness.
5
The shabby plainness of Wren's church well typified all the parochial parsimony.
1
Against the Atlanta Hawks, they unveiled a whole new level of stinginess.
2
And all the thanks I get is to be taunted with stinginess.
3
He has treated me with a stinginess that I never knew equalled.
4
I'm glad, for of all faults I detest stinginess in a child.
5
It's a pity that stinginess is one of the roads to affluence.
1
She was capable of refusal, but not of half-measures or of niggardliness.
2
We must, then, be grateful without niggardliness for the gift of his verse.
3
I was deciding between money and men, between niggardliness and romance.
4
Herdsmen and farmers depended for their livelihood on nature, her niggardliness or generosity.
5
There was no niggardliness in the trade the Vose folks made with Captain Mayo.
1
I blushed for this pettiness amid grandeur, and penuriousness surrounded by luxury.
2
Steadily he persisted in what seemed to us a growing penuriousness.
3
He had so often remonstrated with Agatha about her penuriousness as concerned stationery.
4
The thrift of New England did often shrivel into penuriousness.
5
This is enough to make up for any degree of scientific penuriousness or jealousy.
1
Then his new-born scientific ardor seemed to struggle with his rustic costiveness of speech.
2
Laudanum every night, and an opening tincture to obviate costiveness.
3
A cathartic remedy will palliate the costiveness which frequently follows the use of cathartic remedies.
4
The same food that agrees perfectly well with one child will frequently cause costiveness in another.
5
Feed that tends to costiveness should be avoided.
Uso de miserliness en inglés
1
But let it be remembered that thrift is not parsimony not miserliness.
2
I ought to have seen through your father's affectation of miserliness and indifference.
3
One poor quality the PM does share with the former Labour leader is miserliness.
4
What she had called miserliness was really prudence and thrift and other pleasant-sounding virtues.
5
He wishes to emphasize the cold miserliness of this man.
6
But miserliness or avariciousness is a different thing from economy.
7
This customary jest about the servant's miserliness made him laugh.
8
The doctor's miserliness was not mere talk; it was real, and it had an object.
9
Now some sins are contraries, as wastefulness and miserliness.
10
Or is it the very meanest miserliness, that he may keep you all to himself?
11
Hence by sinning with the vice of wastefulness he is freed from the sin of miserliness.
12
He is vulnerable to reason there-alwaysa few grains of common-sensein an ounce of miserliness.
13
But then, old Jacob Patterson was noted as much for his surliness as for his miserliness.
14
Therefore, let Desire, cupidity, thirst, miserliness avoid me.
15
So it was not miserliness; it was just a peculiarity, a curious attention to a trifling detail.
16
I won't say any more, except that all the miserliness in the world was in this man.
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