(1) The real tragedy was that only a miserly 1,500 or so turned out to watch the game, continuing recent downward trends here on a damp and blustery afternoon.(2) The current amount of $12,000 is a miserly and paltry amount that I strongly believe should be much higher.(3) At $62 per ton, the salt takes a serious chunk of the city's $66-million snow removal budget, which has frequently been criticized as miserly .(4) It's because vested interests in the teaching profession are colluding with miserly politicians and ambitious parents to preserve and enhance the privileges they've won for their own offspring.(5) There is an impressive 72 percent support for military action if it backed by the UN but that then becomes only a miserly 20 percent if it is a bilateral US-UK effort.(6) Now a miserly spirit holds us in his tight and leathery grip.(7) We may very well find that we are contributing, through this niggardly, miserly provision, to further examples of leaky buildings.(8) Its revenues soared an average of 36% through the 1990s, but now it's heading into miserly single-digit growth.(9) Most economists expect growth for the entire year to be a miserly 1%.(10) When you feel that everyone at the office has noticed your miserly and cheap behavior, start to make them feel guilty about their own extravagances.(11) It's something else again to start trying to prevent other men buying flowers for their beloveds, accusing them of not really being in love if they buy them flowers, and trying to make them as miserly as I am.(12) The protesters have denounced the new payments as insufficient to cover the cost of the benefits and as miserly for a country that recently reported a budget surplus of nearly US $25 billion.(13) He gave a seamless performance of the miserly Dickens character.(14) Generous peasants might find their farms overcrowded by beggars, whereas more miserly neighbors would profit from the relative quiet and safety thus brought about at no cost to themselves.(15) So if employers were not hiring workers, and if they were miserly when it came to increases in wages and benefits for existing employees, what happened to all the money from the strong economic growth?(16) In other words, the majority of the top-ten contractors were actually quite miserly in their campaign contributions.
