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Examples for "miser"
Examples for "miser"
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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.
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Be doubly careful of those to whom nature has been a niggard.
2
Miss Grandon might be queer and unsocial, but she was no niggard.
3
She was a niggard in things which did not concern herself.
4
But money is distributed with a niggard hand, and only once a year.
5
Praise or blame of its contriver, shown a niggard or profuse
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Grimshaw would curl his lip in a sneer and mutter: The cheap skate.
2
I'd not waste breath teaching a whiner or a cheap skate.
3
She's a good, decent, affectionate girl, and Dave's a cheap skate, all right.
4
You're nothing but a cheap skate, a tin-horn gambler, run down at the heels.
5
You're a cheap skate trying to put up a front!
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Of course, I'm a cheapskate compared with someone like Bob Harris.
2
Then pray for a cheapskate judge and a long-shot verdict.
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He picked me up at the two-dollar poker machines, so you know he's no cheapskate.
4
Maybe it's coded with a cheapskate-detecting algorithm that will mess up my order next time.
5
You can hear everything in this cheapskate apartment.
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The cheapskate This man will find any and every reason to avoid paying the full bill.
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I'm going to miss these cheapskate, sawdust cookies.
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But," he added, "so do them cheapskate actors in there."
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Wealthy people actually tended to be on the cheapskate side when it came to things like tipping.
10
We were sitting in the pub and you told me what a cheapskate you thought Hannes was.
11
At the birthday, I discreetly didn't get a round in, which made me feel like a cheapskate.
12
What kind of cheapskate are you, anyway?
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What, you cheapskate, will you ruin me?
14
There's nothing worse than a cheapskate couple sitting in the corner, watching all the dancers without tipping.
15
Because he'd chosen to move our office to Selma Avenue I'd pegged David Koffman as a business cheapskate.
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Early in his career, Sampson explains, Woods had gained a reputation as a cheapskate and a bad tipper.