Sentence examples for miser and from inspiring English sources

He is miser and misanthrope all in one.

She lives like a miser and never talks about her past.

Although a miser and exploiter, he shows a certain loyalty and solicitude toward the boys.

As well as having a tongue like a file, he was a notorious miser and leech.

Bonds would be deemed a miser and the fan would probably sue him for mental cruelty.

He also provided translations of Molière's The Miser and Pirandello's Six Characters in Search of an Author.

I am hoping the new Administration's apparently genuine sense of empathy will not be wasted on these chronic killjoys, misers, and exploitative puds.

The economic malaise that plagued Japan from the 1990s until the early 2000s brought stunted wages and depressed stock prices, turning free-spending consumers into misers and making them dead weight on Japan's economy.

If page and screen teach us anything about generosity, it is that the greatest philanthropists are converted misers, and that attempts to give do not always work out as planned.

Sidney Frances Bateman's "Self," treated to a wry revival at the Metropolitan Playhouse, may have been written in 1856, but its high society remains amusingly recognizable: a world of misers and socialites, dandies and ditzes, parvenus and social climbers, whose supposedly excellent breeding excuses their excesses.

Ecclesiastical condemnation of "usury," which originally covered any lending of money with the payment of interest, found expression in painting in both northern and southern Europe, illustrated in the exhibition by a series of characteristic admonitory pieces by Italian and Flemish painters, portraying money changers, misers and usurers.