miser in English
This looked and sounded like a Chancellor who was holding on to the Treasury windfalls like a miser hoarding his coins.
Use "miser" in a sentence
1. The stinking miser.
2. Vanity and the Miser
3. A miser worships money.
4. I'm married to a miser.
5. The miser was an incarnation of greed.
6. A miser lusts for gold.
7. The miser gloated over his gold.
8. You old miser drive me nuts.
9. The miser was puffed as a philanthropist.
10. She disovered she had married a miser.
11. A miser loves gold above his life.
12. He drools over them, like that miser.
13. He has grown into an old miser.
14. Here lies a miser who lived for himself,
15. Sir Ralph, he thought, was probably a miser.
16. The miser doesn't like to part with his money.
17. The miser was untouched by the poor man's story.
18. Both the Miser and Vanity nod in self-approval.
19. Being a minimalist to me, is not being a miser.
20. 8 The miser doesn't like to part with his money.
21. The money the miser hoards will do him no good.
22. Why don't you buy me a drink for a change, you old miser!
23. That wizened and grotesque little old man is a notorious miser.
24. Henry was not the miser which later historians have labelled him.
25. 🔊 In the book by Dickens, the miser did nothing but Covet money
26. A typical miser, he hid his money in the house in various places.
27. On one side, weighing his purse in his hand, stands the Miser, representing greed.
28. Experiences are savings which a miser puts aside. Wisdom is an inheritance which a wastrel cannot exhaust.
29. Everyone said Mr Henny was a miser who had thousands of pounds hidden under his bed.
30. He is a miser,and has penny-pinched himself out of several millions of US dollars.
31. Conquer anger by love, evil by good; conquer the miser with liberality, and liar with truth.
32. So why should a man more used to glamorous roles want to play a mean old miser?
33. Leapor sees such a woman degrading herself as a miser: Then let her quit Extravagance and Play.
34. It is closely related to the word misery and has its roots in the Latin miser, "miserable." When you add the Latin prefix co-, "with, together" with the Latin root miser, "miserable," you get Commiserate…
35. Leslie's spirited singing, of the cider song, of Joe Mortimer's splendid miser scene, of Bret's success in the Barcarole
36. My uncle was a terrible miser - he would walk in lashing rain rather than pay a bus fare.
37. 4 Shakespeare has molded summer Locker this greedily very successfully in "the Venetian merchant", sinister, the flagitious miser image.
38. Late 16th century from Latin commiserat- ‘Commiserated’, from the verb commiserari, from com- ‘with’ + miserari ‘to lament’ (from miser ‘wretched’).
39. Conquer anger by love, evil by good; conquer the miser with liberality, and the liar with truth. Buddha
40. He clutched it avariciously, looked at it as a miser looks at gold, and thrust it into his shirt bosom.
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42. He wanted to own her as wildly as a miser wants to own gold coins, as hungrily as a sharecropper wants to own his own land.
43. The sailor grinned and passed him a fragment of sea biscuit. He clutched it avariciously , looked at it as a miser looks at gold, and thrust it into his shirt bosom.
44. "sympathetic suffering of grief or sorrow for the afflictions or distress of another," 1580s, from French commisération, from Latin Commiserationem (nominative commiseratio) "part of an oration intended to excite compassion," noun of action from past-participle stem of commiserari "to pity," from com-, here probably an intensive prefix (see com-) + miserari "bewail, lament," from miser "wretched" (see miser).
45. This page shows answers to the clue Codger, followed by 4 definitions like “A miser or mean person”, “A singular or odd person” and “An eccentric man, esp
46. According to her longstanding "World's Greatest Miser" entry in the Guinness Book of World Records, she died of apoplexy after arguing with a maid over the virtues of skimmed milk.
47. 30 In a way it is again a mode as one might say of metonymically symbolising satisfaction, and here we are led straight away to the dialectic of the money box and the miser.
48. ‘The familiar tomb-like aura still clung to the huge room, Commiserating a time and era long-dead but glory unforgotten in the broken marble columns and towering, arched roof overhead.’ Origin Late 16th century from Latin commiserat- ‘commiserated’, from the verb commiserari, from com- ‘with’ + miserari ‘to lament’ (from miser
49. Le Sicilien, ou l'Amour Peintre was written for festivities at the castle of Saint-Germain, and was followed in 1668 by a very elegant Amphitryon , obviously inspired by Plautus 's version but with allusions to the King's love affairs. George Dandin, ou le Mari Confondu ( The Confounded Husband ) was little appreciated, but success returned with L'Avare ( The Miser ), now very well known.
50. Edward Hall, the Tudor historian, completes his account of the last moments of Thomas Cromwell, after his last speech and prayer, in this way: Cromwell ‘godly and lovingly exhorted them that were about him on the scaffold’ and committed his soul to God, then ‘patiently suffered the stroke of the axe, by a ragged and Butcherly miser, who very ungoodly [sic] performed the office’.