Definition of miserliness in English:
1Excessive desire to save money; extreme meanness: the party earned a damaging reputation for miserliness by cutting pensions
More example sentences
- Miserliness and wastefulness are equally deplored in Buddhism as two degenerate extremes.
- As a planet, we need to re-valuate the consumerist view that "more is better," and how that view creates miserliness, jealousy, and inequality.
- Like Gertrude, whose behaviour provides too insubstantial a cause for Hamlet's disgust, Cherie's impecunious mother makes an inadequate pretext for her affluent daughter's lifelong miserliness and greed.
North American cheapness