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Word Meanings - MISERLY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Like a miser; very covetous; sordid; niggardly. Syn. -- Avaricious; niggardly; sordid; parsimonious; penurious; covetous; stingy; mean. See Avaricious.

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  • SORDIDNESS
    The quality or state of being sordid.
  • GRIPPLE
    A grasp; a gripe. Spenser.
  • GRIPSACK
    A traveler's handbag.
  • CLOSEFISTED
    Covetous; niggardly. Bp. Berkeley. "Closefisted contractors." Hawthorne.
  • SORDID
    1. Filthy; foul; dirty. A sordid god; down from his hoary chin A length of beard descends, uncombed, unclean. Dryden. 2. Vile; base; gross; mean; as, vulgar, sordid mortals. "To scorn the sordid world." Milton. 3. Meanly avaricious; covetous;
  • GRIPINGLY
    In a griping or oppressive manner. Bacon.
  • MISERLY
    Like a miser; very covetous; sordid; niggardly. Syn. -- Avaricious; niggardly; sordid; parsimonious; penurious; covetous; stingy; mean. See Avaricious.
  • GRIPER
    One who gripes; an oppressor; an extortioner. Burton.
  • GRIPMAN
    The man who manipulates a grip.
  • GRIPPLENESS
    The quality of being gripple.
  • STINGY
    Stinging; able to sting.
  • AVARICIOUS
    Actuated by avarice; greedy of gain; immoderately desirous of accumulating property. Syn. -- Greedy; stingy; rapacious; griping; sordid; close. -- Avaricious, Covetous, Parsimonious, Penurious, Miserly, Niggardly. The avaricious eagerly grasp after
  • SORDIDLY
    Sordidness.
  • NIGGARDLY
    Meanly covetous or avarcious in dealing with others; stingy; niggard. Where the owner of the house will be bountiful, it is not for the steward to be niggardly. Bp. Hall. Syn. -- Avarcious; covetous; parsimonious; sparing; miserly; penurios; sordid;
  • GRIPEFUL
    Disposed to gripe; extortionate.
  • GRIP CAR
    A car with a grip to clutch a traction cable.
  • PENURIOUS
    1. Excessively sparing in the use of money; sordid; stingy; miserly. "A penurious niggard of his wealth." Milton. 2. Not bountiful or liberal; scanty. Here creeps along a poor, penurious stream. C. Pitt. 3. Destitute of money; suffering extreme
  • GRIP
    The griffin.
  • PARSIMONIOUS
    Exhibiting parsimony; sparing in expenditure of money; frugal to excess; penurious; niggardly; stingy. -- Par`si*mo"ni*ous*ly, adv. -- Par`si*mo"ni*ous*ness, n. A prodigal king is nearer a tyrant than a parsimonious. Bacon. Extraordinary funds for
  • GRIPPER
    In printing presses, the fingers or nippers. (more info) 1. One who, or that which, grips or seizes. 2. pl.
  • HANDYGRIPE
    Seizure by, or grasp of, the hand; also, close quarters in fighting. Hudibras.
  • LOGOGRIPH
    A sort of riddle in which it is required to discover a chosen word from various combinations of its letters, or of some of its letters, which form other words; -- thus, to discover the chosen word chatter form cat, hat, rat, hate, rate, etc. B.

 

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