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单词 miserliness
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.
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