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comparative more miserly, superlative most miserly
Like a miser, very cautious with money. quotations examples
What could be more selfish, more miserly—this in specific is what gnaws at him—than dying childless, terminating the line, subtracting oneself from the great work of generation? Worse than miserly, in fact: unnatural.
2005, J. M. Coetzee, “Three”, in Slow Man, New York: Viking, page 20