[1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

miserly \mi"serly\ mimac"z~erly^, 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
see also:
miser avaricious 

[2] : WordNet (r) 2.0

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
see also:
mean mingy tight 

[3] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

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

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