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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 :   [ gcide ]

  Miserly \Mi"ser*ly\ (m[imac]"z[~e]r*l[y^]), a. [From Miser.]
     Like a miser; very covetous; avaricious; stingy; sordid;
     niggardly.
     [1913 Webster]
  
     Syn: Avaricious; niggardly; sordid; parsimonious; avaricious;
          penurious; covetous; stingy; mean. See Avaricious.
          [1913 Webster]

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) :   [ web1913 ]

  Miserly \Mi"ser*ly\, a. [From Miser.]
     Like a miser; very covetous; sordid; niggardly.
  
     Syn: Avaricious; niggardly; sordid; parsimonious; penurious;
          covetous; stingy; mean. See Avaricious.

From WordNet (r) 2.0 :   [ wn ]

  miserly
       adj : used of persons or behavior; characterized by or indicative
             of lack of generosity; "a mean person"; "he left a
             miserly tip" [syn: mean, mingy, tight]

From English Wiktionary: All languages (2023-07-27) :   [ dictinfo.com:wikt-en-ALL-2023-07-27 ]

  miserly
     a.
     Like a miser, very cautious with money.

From English Wiktionary: English language only (2023-07-27) :   [ dictinfo.com:wikt-en-en-2023-07-27 ]

  miserly
     a.
     Like a miser, very cautious with money.

From English Wiktionary: Western, Greek, and Slavonic languages only (2023-07-27) :   [ dictinfo.com:wikt-en-Western_Greek_Slavonic-2023-07-27 ]

  miserly
     a.
     Like a miser, very cautious with money.

From English Wiktionary: Western languages only (2023-07-27) :   [ dictinfo.com:wikt-en-Western-2023-07-27 ]

  miserly
     a.
     Like a miser, very cautious with money.

From Finnish Wiktionary: All languages (2023-07-27) :   [ dictinfo.com:wikt-fi-ALL-2023-07-27 ]

  miserly
     Englanti a.
     saita, pihi

From Swedish Wiktionary: All languages (2023-07-27) :   [ dictinfo.com:wikt-sv-ALL-2023-07-27 ]

  miserly
     Engelska a.
     girig, gnidig

From English-Arabic FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.6.3 :   [ freedict:eng-ara ]

  Miserly /mˈaɪzəli/
  بخيل

From English-български език FreeDict+WikDict dictionary ver. 2023.05.29 :   [ freedict:eng-bul ]

  miserly //ˈmaɪ.zə(ɹ).li// 
  скъпернически, стиснат
  stingy

From English-Czech dicts.info/FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.1.3 :   [ freedict:eng-ces ]

  miserly /mˈaɪzəli/ 
  lakomý

From English - German Ding/FreeDict dictionary ver. 1.9-fd1 :   [ freedict:eng-deu ]

  miserly /mˈaɪzəli/
  geizig, knausrig, knauserig, kniepig [Norddt.] , netig [Norddt.] , knorzig  [Schw.]
           Note: Person
     Synonyms: niggardly, penny-pinching, tight-fisted, close-fisted, hard-fisted, stingy, mingy, mean, chintzy, penurious
  

From English - German Ding/FreeDict dictionary ver. 1.9-fd1 :   [ freedict:eng-deu ]

  miserly /mˈaɪzəli/
  läppisch, lumpig, lächerlich  [fin.]
        "a miserly one percent per year."  - läppische ein Prozent pro Jahr
     Synonyms: niggardly, piddling, piddly
  

From English - Modern Greek XDXF/FreeDict dictionary ver. 0.1.1 :   [ freedict:eng-ell ]

  miserly /mˈaɪzəli/
  
  παραδόπιστος, τσιγγούνης, φιλάργυρος

From English-suomi FreeDict+WikDict dictionary ver. 2023.05.29 :   [ freedict:eng-fin ]

  miserly //ˈmaɪ.zə(ɹ).li// 
  saita, itara, nuuka, pihi
  stingy

From English-French FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.1.6 :   [ freedict:eng-fra ]

  miserly /maizəliː/
  avare, avaricieux

From English-Hindi FreeDict Dictionary ver. 1.6 :   [ freedict:eng-hin ]

  miserly /mˈaɪzəli/ 
  1. कंजूस
        "Live within your means but don't be miserly."

From English-Croatian FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.2.2 :   [ freedict:eng-hrv ]

  miserly /mˈaɪzəli/
  bijedno, jadno, škrt, škrto

From English-Hungarian FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.2.1 :   [ freedict:eng-hun ]

  miserly /mˈaɪzəli/
  1. zsugori
  2. fukar
  3. szegényes
  4. szûkmarkú
  5. fösvény
  6. szánalmas

From English-Italian FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.1.2 :   [ freedict:eng-ita ]

  miserly /mˈaɪzəli/
  avaro

From English-日本語 (にほんご) FreeDict+WikDict dictionary ver. 2023.05.29 :   [ freedict:eng-jpn ]

  miserly //ˈmaɪ.zə(ɹ).li// 
  けち, 吝嗇
  stingy

From English-Latin FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.1.2 :   [ freedict:eng-lat ]

  miserly /maizəliː/
  avarus

From English-Dutch FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.2 :   [ freedict:eng-nld ]

  miserly /maizəliː/
  gierig, hebzuchtig, inhalig, pinnig, schraperig, vrekkig

From English - Polish Piotrowski+Saloni/FreeDict dictionary ver. 0.2 :   [ freedict:eng-pol ]

  miserly /ˈmaɪzəlɪ/ 
    skąpy

From English-Portuguese FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.3 :   [ freedict:eng-por ]

  miserly /maizəliː/
  avarento, avaro

From English-Turkish FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.3 :   [ freedict:eng-tur ]

  miserly /mˈaɪzəli/
  1. cimri, hasis, pinti. miserliness  cimrilik, pintilik.

From Croatian-English FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.1.2 :   [ freedict:hrv-eng ]

  miserly /mˈisɛrlɪ/
  bijedno, jadno

From IPA:en_US :   [ IPA:en_US ]

  

/ˈmaɪzɝɫi/

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 :   [ moby-thesaurus ]

  119 Moby Thesaurus words for "miserly":
     Lenten, Spartan, a hog for, abject, abstemious, acquisitive,
     all-devouring, ascetic, austere, avaricious, avid, bottomless,
     cheap, cheeseparing, chinchy, chintzy, close, closefisted,
     coveting, covetous, devouring, dwarfed, dwarfish, esurient,
     exiguous, frugal, gluttonous, gobbling, grabby, grasping, greedy,
     hardfisted, hoggish, ignoble, illiberal, impoverished, infrequent,
     insatiable, insatiate, jejune, lean, limited, limitless, meager,
     mean, mercenary, mingy, money-hungry, money-mad, narrow, near,
     niggardly, omnivorous, overgreedy, paltry, parsimonious,
     penny-pinching, penurious, piddling, piggish, pinchfisted,
     pinching, poor, puny, quenchless, rapacious, rare, ravening,
     ravenous, save-all, scant, scanty, scarce, scattered, scrawny,
     scrimp, scrimping, scrimpy, seldom met with, seldom seen, skimp,
     skimping, skimpy, slakeless, slender, slight, slim, small, sordid,
     spare, sparing, sparse, spotty, sprinkled, starvation, stingy,
     stinted, straitened, stunted, subsistence, swinish, thin, tight,
     tight-fisted, tightfisted, unappeasable, unappeased, ungenerous,
     unnourishing, unnutritious, unquenchable, unsated, unsatisfied,
     unslakeable, unslaked, venal, voracious, watered, watery
  
  

From XDICT the English-Chinese dictionary :   [ xdict ]

     a. 吝啬的,贪婪的

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