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- noun Plural form of
miser .
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Examples
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The 10 inexpensive, so-called misers we recently tested could muster an average of only 30.6 mpg overall.
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The 10 inexpensive, so-called misers we recently tested could muster an average of only 30.6 mpg overall.
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I have studied the people called misers and thought a good deal about them.
The Poet at the Breakfast-Table Oliver Wendell Holmes 1851
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I have studied the people called misers and thought a good deal about them.
Complete Project Gutenberg Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. Works Oliver Wendell Holmes 1851
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Really, it is a complete benefit for him, since I am sure that he would be more than willing to pay it to get others (misers and lower-income indivuals) off the roads.
Greg Mankiw Pumps for a Higher Gas Tax, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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Aside from some idiosyncratic misers, very few indeed.
Greg Mankiw Pumps for a Higher Gas Tax, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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Yet these deficit spendthrifts suddenly become misers when it comes to Social Security, where they're only saving $1.7 billion by slashing its administrative budget.
Richard (RJ) Eskow: The GOP Plan to Cut Social Security ... Starting Right Now RJ 2011
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We are cognitive misers; we try to think as little as possible, especially about our deep inner motivations.
Ramnath Subramanian: The Bhagavad Gita and the Problem of the Ego Ramnath Subramanian 2010
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Yet these deficit spendthrifts suddenly become misers when it comes to Social Security, where they're only saving $1.7 billion by slashing its administrative budget.
Richard (RJ) Eskow: The GOP Plan to Cut Social Security ... Starting Right Now RJ 2011
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Yet these deficit spendthrifts suddenly become misers when it comes to Social Security, where they're only saving $1.7 billion by slashing its administrative budget.
Richard (RJ) Eskow: The GOP Plan to Cut Social Security ... Starting Right Now RJ 2011
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