Miser
noun
A person who hates to spend money, often to the point where it affects their ability to provide basic needs for themselves or others.
Even though he made a high salary, he lived like a miser, eating instant noodles and never spending his money on anything.
Often appears as...
- lives like a miser
- miser's grip
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Disapproving
noun
A person who values money or material possessions above everything else.
He was a real miser; he would hoard money and valuable items and would not share anything with anyone.
Often appears as...
- greedy miser
- miser's thrift
Usage tips
Disapproving
noun
A person who hates to spend money, often to the point where it affects their ability to provide basic needs for themselves or others.
Even though he made a high salary, he lived like a miser, eating instant noodles and never spending his money on anything.
Often appears as...
- lives like a miser
- miser's grip
Usage tips
Disapproving
noun
A person who values money or material possessions above everything else.
He was a real miser; he would hoard money and valuable items and would not share anything with anyone.
Often appears as...
- greedy miser
- miser's thrift
Usage tips
Disapproving
Definition 1 of 2
Pro Tip 1/3Negative Connotation
The term 'miser' implies disapproval and portrays the person negatively.
Don't be such a miser; it's your turn to buy us all coffee.
Pro Tip 2/3Metaphorical Use
'Miser' is often used metaphorically to describe excessive frugality.
Stop counting every penny—don't act the miser.
Pro Tip 3/3Human Attribute
Being a miser is not only about money, but also about a reluctance to share and enjoy life.
He could afford a better car, but his miserly ways kept him driving the old clunker.
Pro Tip 1/3Negative Connotation
The term 'miser' implies disapproval and portrays the person negatively.
Don't be such a miser; it's your turn to buy us all coffee.
Pro Tip 2/3Metaphorical Use
'Miser' is often used metaphorically to describe excessive frugality.
Stop counting every penny—don't act the miser.
Pro Tip 3/3Human Attribute
Being a miser is not only about money, but also about a reluctance to share and enjoy life.
He could afford a better car, but his miserly ways kept him driving the old clunker.
Pro Tip 1/3Negative Connotation
The term 'miser' implies disapproval and portrays the person negatively.
Don't be such a miser; it's your turn to buy us all coffee.
Pro Tip 2/3Metaphorical Use
'Miser' is often used metaphorically to describe excessive frugality.
Stop counting every penny—don't act the miser.
Pro Tip 3/3Human Attribute
Being a miser is not only about money, but also about a reluctance to share and enjoy life.
He could afford a better car, but his miserly ways kept him driving the old clunker.
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Safari Live - Day 31 PIPE...
her teats of the suckle marks so that's the youngest female that generally follows amber eyes so as soon as an buys Mews but she looks like she's stalking something look at her posture a misers gone into a store posture look at her the way that she's walking she's head down look lowering that head looking forward I wonder if she spotted something
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Anand Giridharadas: A...
America's float would be a neon shrine to second chances. But America, generous with second chances to the children of other lands, today grows miserly with first chances to the children of its own.
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Why should you read...
The starving orphan seeking a second helping of gruel. The spinster wasting away in her tattered wedding dress. The stone-hearted miser plagued by the ghost of Christmas past.
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Safari Live - Day 31 PIPE...
her teats of the suckle marks so that's the youngest female that generally follows amber eyes so as soon as an buys Mews but she looks like she's stalking something look at her posture a misers gone into a store posture look at her the way that she's walking she's head down look lowering that head looking forward I wonder if she spotted something
Video examples
Anand Giridharadas: A...
America's float would be a neon shrine to second chances. But America, generous with second chances to the children of other lands, today grows miserly with first chances to the children of its own.
Video examples
Why should you read...
The starving orphan seeking a second helping of gruel. The spinster wasting away in her tattered wedding dress. The stone-hearted miser plagued by the ghost of Christmas past.
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Quote examples
William Blake
English Poet
To the eyes of a miser a guinea is more beautiful than the sun, and a bag worn with the use of money has more beautiful proportions than a vine filled with grapes.
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George Santayana
Spanish Philosopher
The irrational in the human has something about it altogether repulsive and terrible, as we see in the maniac, the miser, the drunkard or the ape.
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Pietro Aretino
Italian Poet
I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or better than friendship.
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Robertson Davies
Canadian Novelist
To be a book-collector is to combine the worst characteristics of a dope fiend with those of a miser.
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Tom Wolfe
American Journalist
This is the artist, then, life's hungry man, the glutton of eternity, beauty's miser, glory's slave.
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Karl Marx
German Philosopher
While the miser is merely a capitalist gone mad, the capitalist is a rational miser.
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Chunky Pandey
Indian Actor
I admit I'm a miser! The most generous thing I've done is get married!
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Publilius Syrus
Roman Writer
The miser is as much in want of what he has as of what he has not.
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Gertrude Stein
American Author
Oh, I wish I were a miser; being a miser must be so occupying.
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George Herbert
British Poet
Never was a miser a brave soul.
Quote examples
William Blake
English Poet
To the eyes of a miser a guinea is more beautiful than the sun, and a bag worn with the use of money has more beautiful proportions than a vine filled with grapes.
Quote examples
George Santayana
Spanish Philosopher
The irrational in the human has something about it altogether repulsive and terrible, as we see in the maniac, the miser, the drunkard or the ape.
Quote examples
Pietro Aretino
Italian Poet
I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or better than friendship.
Quote examples
Robertson Davies
Canadian Novelist
To be a book-collector is to combine the worst characteristics of a dope fiend with those of a miser.
Quote examples
Tom Wolfe
American Journalist
This is the artist, then, life's hungry man, the glutton of eternity, beauty's miser, glory's slave.
Quote examples
Karl Marx
German Philosopher
While the miser is merely a capitalist gone mad, the capitalist is a rational miser.
Quote examples
Chunky Pandey
Indian Actor
I admit I'm a miser! The most generous thing I've done is get married!
Quote examples
Publilius Syrus
Roman Writer
The miser is as much in want of what he has as of what he has not.
Quote examples
Gertrude Stein
American Author
Oh, I wish I were a miser; being a miser must be so occupying.
Quote examples
George Herbert
British Poet
Never was a miser a brave soul.
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