Sentence examples for is a miserly from inspiring English sources
Their combined post-season ERA is a miserly 2.60.
Yet its price-to-earnings multiple is a miserly nine.
Today's minimum wage is a miserly $7.25 an hour — which is actually lower, adjusted for inflation, than it was 50 long years ago.
In the country with the most Eurosceptic press on the continent, this will be tough; and its budget is a miserly £40,000 ($75,000).The rest of the "yes" campaign is short of money, too.
National insurance schemes offer scant reassurance to savers when sovereigns are wobbly and insured deposits make up a big chunk of annual GDP (see chart).Judged against these three requirements, Europe's new plan is a miserly one.
But the figure that represents the reality of investment in road safety, the one implied by local authorities' spending on, for instance, measures to slow traffic down, or to provide pedestrians with safe places to cross roads, is a miserly £100,000 per life.Save lives, not politicians' facesFrom the politicians' point of view, this may be rational.
It's a miserly energy consumer, Mr. Wilkins said.
South Korea's main payoff was a miserly two-year extension of tariffs against imports of American pork.
But a mere cameo role with a few lines would have been a miserly way for Kiri Te Kanawa, now 65, to make what may be her farewell to the house, where she has not sung in an opera since 1998.
That's a miserly win ratio of 18.75%.
The U.S. consumer will rule the world economy for years, but I expect he will be a miserly king. A. Gary Shilling is president of A. Gary Shilling & Co., economic consultants and investment advisers.
