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Meanings of miser in inglês

A person who is stingy and miserly.

Usage of miser in inglês
1
Our tyrant is not the satyr or the torturer; but the miser.
A Miscellany of Men
2
The kangaroo and the miser carry all they love in a pouch.
Wise or Otherwise
3
The miser has no friends; but the spendthrift has generally too many.
Pebbles on the shore [by] Alpha of the plough
4
The round coins in the miser's stocking were safe in some sense.
A Miscellany of Men
5
Then the cheerful old miser put a nickel in my blistered hand.
The University of Hard Knocks
6
Misery is indeed the lot, if not the vice, of the miser.
Explanation of Catholic Morals / A Concise, Reasoned, and Popula...
7
He was not a curmudgeon with his money; he was no miser.
The Small House at Allington
8
Trevethick, although a close-fisted fellow, was no miser in the vulgar sense.
Bred in the Bone; Or, Like Father, Like Son: A Novel
9
And keeping the courtship close, too, for fear of the old miser.
The Missing Bride
10
He says it's about this miser who thinks about nothing but money.
The Irish Times
11
We must be haunted by the spirit of some burglar or miser.
Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume ...
12
I call over your idea, as a miser counts over his treasure.
The Letters of Robert Burns
13
A few minutes more brought him in sight of the miser's cottage.
Mark Hurdlestone; Or, The Two Brothers
14
The file showed that Alexander, a confirmed hypochondriac, was also a miser.
The charlemagne pursuit
15
I imagined her counting over her grievances like a miser for years.
More bitter than death: an emma fielding mystery
16
I know nothing whatever of them, faintly replied the startled old miser.
A Fascinating Traitor: An Anglo-Indian Story
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