In fact, Compaq's meager offering looks miserly, even compared with the otherwise scantily furnished sub-$1,000 PCs from competing manufacturers.
There were other management decisions that seem miserly.
Santokie takes the ball again and delivers exactly what his side is looking for, tying down both batsmen and only allowing singles in a miserly over.
Josh Kennedy spearheaded a dominant midfield, youngster Isaac Heeney looked sharp and a miserly defensive unit kept the clamps on the Tigers' forwards.
His successor, the much-admired Gabriele Finaldi, returning from the Prado, has already settled the dispute over privatisation and the living wage that made the NG look like some miserly Tesco.
At first glance, annuity rates do not seem so miserly.
Chelsea look to have all the right moving parts now, from a miserly defence and a midfield that mixes creativity and solidity in equal measure to a potent striker in Diego Costa.
It looked like the sort of place where Scrooge might have lived — a narrow brick building, miserly in terms of space, and joined to identical, equally grim houses on either side of it.
Dressed in nearly all black from cowboy hat to boot, with a miserly smile and a dead man's empty eyes, Joe Cooper, a k a Killer Joe, looks sharp, talks smart.
Beyond the miserly dictates of insurance companies, zoning and density further impede the evolution of a vision that looks to avoid the repetition of the destruction.
