Thus, miserliness is more than the English word stinginess. From Wordnik.com. [Mind and Mental Factors: The Fifty-one Types of Subsidiary Awareness] Reference
This is detrimental to our fight against miserliness. From Wordnik.com. [Secondary Bodhisattva Vows] Reference
In some churches, the miserliness rate is even higher. From Wordnik.com. [RNB Religion Roundup: Ted Haggard, Billy Graham, Scientology, UFOs and a haunted hospital…] Reference
Blame me fur miserliness, an 'excuse her fur slackness!. From Wordnik.com. [Janet of the Dunes] Reference
"Another wave of miserliness from Britain's super-rich.". From Wordnik.com. [Monday, January 31, 2005] Reference
He wishes to emphasize the cold miserliness of this man. From Wordnik.com. [Ontario Teachers' Manuals: Literature] Reference
It lacks the aspect of hoarding that miserliness possesses. From Wordnik.com. [Mind and Mental Factors: The Fifty-one Types of Subsidiary Awareness] Reference
Thrift is the mean between miserliness and self-indulgence. From Wordnik.com. ["The Left"] Reference
Our motivation is not attachment to the book or miserliness. From Wordnik.com. [Taking the Kalachakra Initiation ��� 6 Refuge Commitments and Bodhisattva Vows] Reference
When food and wealth accumulated with miserliness are left behind. From Wordnik.com. [Mind Of Clear Light] Reference
Here the motivation must be specifically attachment and miserliness. From Wordnik.com. [Taking the Kalachakra Initiation ��� 6 Refuge Commitments and Bodhisattva Vows] Reference
Equality awareness (Ratnasambhava) becomes arrogance and miserliness. From Wordnik.com. [Buddha-Family Traits (Buddha Families) and Aspects of Experience] Reference
Here, the motivation must be specifically attachment and miserliness. From Wordnik.com. [Root Bodhisattva Vows] Reference
It appropriates poverty funds with miserliness and grudging reluctance. From Wordnik.com. [Richard (RJ) Eskow: Today's Visionary, Not Yesterday's Celebrity: Martin Luther King, Jr.'s Words With Contemporary Images] Reference
This is because miserliness does not entail comparison with someone else. From Wordnik.com. [20 Dissolving Disturbing Emotions into Underlying Deep Awareness] Reference
This tendency may take extreme forms, as in the case of miserliness or kleptomania. From Wordnik.com. [Human Traits and their Social Significance] Reference
Had she lied to spite him for his miserliness-or told him the truth, for the same reason?. From Wordnik.com. [A Breath of Snow and Ashes]
But by poverty in this sense we do not mean an indiscreet asceticism or a shameful miserliness. From Wordnik.com. [Economic Personalism is a Fraud: The Solution to Capitalism] Reference
He failed because of the difficulty of the land, coupled with the miserliness of his superiors. From Wordnik.com. [The Berrybender Narratives] Reference
So it was not miserliness; it was just a peculiarity, a curious attention to a trifling detail. From Wordnik.com. [Mark Twain: A Biography] Reference
In the case of the second root bodhisattva vow, we decline because of attachment and miserliness. From Wordnik.com. [Secondary Bodhisattva Vows] Reference
The second root bodhisattva downfall is not giving the Dharma because of attachment and miserliness. From Wordnik.com. [Secondary Bodhisattva Vows] Reference
She's a morphine addict; he's a fading stage legend with a drinking problem and pathological miserliness. From Wordnik.com. [Theater Review: 'Long Day's Journey Into Night'] Reference
For example, suppose we do not lend somebody one of our books because of attachment to it and miserliness. From Wordnik.com. [Taking the Kalachakra Initiation ��� 6 Refuge Commitments and Bodhisattva Vows] Reference
Likewise they are unstained by greed, anger, foolish and stubborn ignorance, pride, jealousy or miserliness. From Wordnik.com. [5 Alternative Kalachakra] Reference
He had refused to buy anything at all, despite his sizeable store of cash, and was now paying for his miserliness. From Wordnik.com. [The Misenchanted Sword]
That's probably why I'm puzzled by the miserliness and rudeness of King's latest book, the 1075 page Under the Dome. From Wordnik.com. [Daniel Krotz: Shooting Fish in a Barrel: Stephen King and Under the Dome] Reference
One day she rang the doorbell of a rich man notorious for his miserliness and persuaded him to donate a sizable gift. From Wordnik.com. [There was Blessed Jeanne Jugan] Reference
Their tartness and strictness and miserliness had made the life of the girls in the school uncomfortable for some time. From Wordnik.com. [Billie Bradley on Lighthouse Island The Mystery of the Wreck] Reference
Faustino had lived in a state of miserliness almost in America, but then he had had his debauches of shows and wine and carousals. From Wordnik.com. [Twilight in Italy] Reference
Loving a movie that no one else has seen, that most people won't ever have the opportunity to see, seems like a form of miserliness. From Wordnik.com. [Lance Mannion:] Reference
It was not our poverty she was scornful of, but my supposed miserliness in the housekeeping: “he has his objects,” she seemed to say. From Wordnik.com. [A Gentle Spirit] Reference
Confused about the actual equal nature of ourselves and all others, and consequently lacking equanimity, we act with pride and miserliness. From Wordnik.com. [Taking the Kalachakra Initiation ��� 11 The Second Day of the Actual Empowerment] Reference
We must show him that we despise his miserliness and meanness. From Wordnik.com. [Practical Ethics] Reference
But this was not down to any miserliness or bad planning on my part. From Wordnik.com. [Chinalyst - China blogs in English] Reference
No sense in getting a reputation for miserliness and unnecessary cruelty. From Wordnik.com. [100 Word Stories] Reference
Or is it the very meanest miserliness, that he may keep you all to himself?. From Wordnik.com. [Lord Ormont and His Aminta — Complete] Reference
My prim miserliness continues, with my focus now on the fishing dock in the SE corner of the park. From Wordnik.com. [What Is This Crap?] Reference
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