释义 |
miserliness|ˈmaɪzəlɪnɪs| [f. next + -ness.] The quality or condition of being miserly; niggardliness, closefistedness.
1645Ussher Body Div. 304 Frugality without liberality [degenerateth] into sordid miserlinesse. 1860Geo. Eliot Mill on Fl. I. 227 In old-fashioned times, an ‘independence’ was hardly ever made without a little miserliness. 1865Lewes in Fortn. Rev. II. 692 Economy is rejection of whatever is superfluous; it is not Miserliness. |