miserly.

Unwilling to spend or share money or resources to an excessive degree.

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Words that belong together

• miserly provision
• a miserly allowance

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The miserly allowance forced the staff to repair tools that should have been replaced.

He offered a miserly portion of the reward he had promised to divide.

Usage notes

Primary category: literary. Forms: Comparative more miserly; superlative most miserly where gradation is meaningful. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings.