Miserly

What do we mean by miserly?

Of, relating to, or characteristic of a miser; avaricious or penurious. adjective

Like a miser; penurious; sordid; niggardly; parsimonious: as, a miserly person, or a person of miserly habits.

Like a miser; very covetous; avaricious; stingy; sordid; niggardly. adjective

Like a miser; very covetous; stingy; cautious with money adjective

(used of persons or behavior) characterized by or indicative of lack of generosity adjective

Like a miser; very covetous; cautious with money

Words that are spelled similarly to miserly:
miserly, misery.

Words that are triggered by (strongly associated with) the word miserly:
copepod, miser, scrooge, plankton, rimini, ebenezer, crab, obsessed, overs, knight, cruel, behaviour, jealous, boss, farmer, merchant, attitude, wealth, christmas, lawrence, spending, money, ways, mrs, shop, opera, plot, father, man, jewish, green, lady, wife, pay, becomes, character, old, makes, daughter, son.

Words that rhyme with miserly:
advise early, analyze early, arise early, characterize early, compromise early, dies early, emphasize early, exercise early, identifies early, implies early, metastasize early, minimize early, organize early, realize early, recognize early, rise early, size early, supplies early, surprise early.

Nouns that are often described by the adjective miserly:
man, father, habits, person, fellow, ways, disposition, uncle, fashion, nature, woman, way, people, attitude, spirit, care, hoarding, style, wretch, clothes, character, men, sum, greed, farmer, wages, economy, husband, priest, curmudgeon, manner, propensities, king, merchant, instincts, avare, skinflint, heart, parent, landlord, soul, behavior, delight, feeling, owners, conduct, pay, scrooge, wage, thrift, millionaire, oligarch, mother, wife, bachelor, creature, jew, habit, tendencies, master, salary, persons, budget, existence, pension, relish, treatment, owner, mind, light, allowance, fathers, individual, host, instinct, desire, avarice, knight, aunt, wishes, brother, usurer, parsimony, banker, one, folly, soil, saving, churl, percent, hunks.

Consonant match to miserly:
mesally, missoula, mozilla, muzzily, muzzler, mazola, mazily, mazzoli, mazzolla, muzzle a, muzzle her.

Words that sound like miserly:
miserly, messerly, messerli, misery, marley, merely, measly, marly, motherly, morley, marlee, mosley, moseley, mosely, musli, matherly, mizzly, miley, mostly, missouri, miser, mightily, marla, muesli, marlow, marlo, majorly, marlowe, mizer, merlo, messily, masterly, my world, muscly, mannerly, meagerly, mozilla, misers, morla, masri, moberly, murley, mesally, mr lee, maselli, misly, miseria, misera, mccurley, meserole, misally, meagrely, nicely, wisely, gnarly, nearly, leisurely, noisily, nasally, nosily, knicely, nicery, wycherley, my hero, measuredly, mali, mari, maisie, maori, marl, mally, maisy, malley, maly, marle, maley, marleen, mallie, markley, mairi, malie, mallee, maila, marilee, malli, maisel, marai, marlar, marled, maitri, maili, mahli, maali, maiolo, mahri, maare, mairie, maithili, -metry, marbly.