MISERLY in a Sentence

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1. A miserly father makes a prodigal son.
2. The miserable scene was revived in my mind.
3. He is miserly with both his time and his money.
4. It is comparison that makes men happy or miserable.
5. I am miserable, and they shall share my wretchedness.

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 Meanings and Examples of MISERLY
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miserly
 a.  indicative of lack of generosity; cautious with money
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  Also, when we played at cards Miss Havisham would look on, with a miserly relish of Estella's moods, whatever they were.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In Chapter XII
2  Of course it was not really because of that, but everything together, he began this hospital to prove, do you see, that he was not miserly about money.
Anna Karenina 2 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 6: Chapter 18
3  Tiny audits Lena's accounts occasionally, and invests her money for her; and Lena, apparently, takes care that Tiny doesn't grow too miserly.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5. Cuzak's Boys: I
4  He said little, but when he spoke I read in his kindling eye and in his animated glance a restrained but firm resolve not to be chained to the miserable details of commerce.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 3
5  When I reflect, my dear cousin," said she, "on the miserable death of Justine Moritz, I no longer see the world and its works as they before appeared to me.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 9
6  The weather was fine; it was about the middle of the month of August, nearly two months after the death of Justine, that miserable epoch from which I dated all my woe.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 9
7  I am miserable, and they shall share my wretchedness.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 10
8  I was a poor, helpless, miserable wretch; I knew, and could distinguish, nothing; but feeling pain invade me on all sides, I sat down and wept.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 11
9  Here, then, I retreated and lay down happy to have found a shelter, however miserable, from the inclemency of the season, and still more from the barbarity of man.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 11
10  If such lovely creatures were miserable, it was less strange that I, an imperfect and solitary being, should be wretched.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 12
11  My thoughts now became more active, and I longed to discover the motives and feelings of these lovely creatures; I was inquisitive to know why Felix appeared so miserable and Agatha so sad.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 12
12  They found a miserable asylum in the cottage in Germany, where I discovered them.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 14
13  Such were the events that preyed on the heart of Felix and rendered him, when I first saw him, the most miserable of his family.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 14
14  For some weeks I led a miserable life in the woods, endeavouring to cure the wound which I had received.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 16
15  I am alone and miserable; man will not associate with me; but one as deformed and horrible as myself would not deny herself to me.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 16
Example Sentence: (23 in 2 pages)
1  He is miserly with both his time and his money.
2  A miserly father makes a prodigal son.
3  Transformed by his vision on Christmas Eve, mean old Scrooge ceased being miserly and became a generous, kind old man.
4  The secret of being miserable is to have leisure to bother about whether you are happy or not.
5  We mustn't fear daylight just because it almost always illuminates a miserable world.
6  He was miserable all the time and rows would start over petty things.
7  The film was a miserable commercial failure both in Italy and in the United States.
8  It is comparison that makes men happy or miserable.
9  The miserable scene was revived in my mind.
10  I took a series of badly paid secretarial jobs which made me really miserable.
11  The miserable Hatter dropped his teacup, and went down on one knee. 'I'm a poor man, your Majesty,' he began.
12  Lucy's little brother was the bane of her existence: his attempts to make her life miserable worked so well that she could have poisoned him.
13  One moment he was in maudlin tears and the next he was cracking some miserable joke about the disaster.
14  Hoping for a rave review of his new show, the playwright was miserable when saw the critics pan it unanimously.
15  The miserable story, especially the distant forces of law, is all depicted in visceral detail.