How to Use miser in a Sentence

miser

noun

• The key is, like the miser, to be the first out of the cab and the last into the pub.
  — Clem Chambers, Forbes, 10 Nov. 2021
• But nobody should ride this bike, or its cousins, like a juice miser on a cargo run.
  — Kevin Purdy, ArsTechnica, 20 Sep. 2025
• Major storms could surface if one partner is a spendthrift and the other is a miser.
  — Bruce Helmer and Peg Webb, Twin Cities, 3 Feb. 2024
• At the same moment, an angel asks the miser to pray to God for redemption.
  — Brian T. Allen, National Review, 18 Jan. 2024
• Becky thought of herself as one of those folktale misers, never letting a person slip out of her life.
  — Adam Davidson, The New Yorker, 9 Jan. 2017
• Death, in the form of a skeleton carrying a money bag, enters a miser’s bedroom.
  — Brian T. Allen, National Review, 18 Jan. 2024
• The desire to defend him—the urge, in other words, to identify with him—even comes down to the idea of his being a miser.
  — A.e. Stallings, The New York Review of Books, 17 Aug. 2023
• But what irresponsible, immoral miser cares about the mortgage while the house is still burning?
  — Letter Writers, Twin Cities, 29 Sep. 2019
• The more frugal sides are decried as misers or praised for their market savvy, no matter the surrounding factors.
  — Chris Weatherspoon, New York Times, 9 Feb. 2026
• Sam Gregory reprises his role as the play’s curmudgeonly miser.
  — Dylan Owens, The Know, 3 Apr. 2017
• To me this is a silly question asked by old quivering misers and answered with a roaring NO by their doom-gurus.
  — Clem Chambers, Forbes, 16 Mar. 2023
• As Atlanta audiences revisit the story of the miser who learned to keep Christmas best of all, Bell will be doing the same thing.
  — Bo Emerson, ajc, 9 Nov. 2021
• The deceased was reportedly a bullying miser and blackmailer, and many had motive and opportunity to do him in.
  — Misha Berson, The Seattle Times, 2 June 2017
• The Muppet characters tell their version of the classic tale of an old and bitter miser’s redemption on Christmas Eve.
  — Ben Flanagan | [email protected], al, 5 Dec. 2022
• Tom Mula's play retells the Scrooge story through his deceased partner Marley, who turns out to have arranged the spirits who bring about the miser's change of heart.
  — Jim Higgins, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 5 Nov. 2020
• Whitford gives the famous miser a richly layered and complex shading, giving him a wry and knowing sensibility even in his most curmudgeonly moments.
  — Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 2 Dec. 2021
• Equally vital, aging misers addicted to their vocations need palliatives and surrogates for the drug of importance.
  — Literary Hub, 18 June 2026
• There are many iterations of Charles Dickens’ classic story about a rich old miser frightened into the spirit of Christmas by a number of ghosts.
  — Aimée Lutkin, ELLE, 30 Nov. 2022
• About half the roster made only occasional contributions, like a guilty miser chipping into the Salvation Army bucket.
  — Bill Livingston, cleveland.com, 29 Apr. 2018
• Despite his incredible wealth, the family patriarch was a infamous miser, who kept his fortune in a charitable trust to avoid taxes, but gave little if anything to charity.
  — Mike Miller, PEOPLE.com, 25 Dec. 2017
• Abele certainly is resolved to avoid looming cuts in social services and is trying his best to convince the public the County Board is filled with Scrooge-like misers for approving them in the first place.
  — Don Behm, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 13 Dec. 2017
• Charles Dickens portrayed the fictional miser as someone who pursued profit above all, and Gramm acknowledges that might have denied ol’ Ebenezer a full and happy personal life.
  — Dallas News, 28 Dec. 2022
• The British author’s novella about a selfish and stingy miser who becomes woke in Victorian England was an instant holiday hit when published in 1843.
  — Los Angeles Times, 9 Dec. 2022
• Charles Dickens’ classic holiday tale of ghosts, a miser named Scrooge and the possibility of redemption, re-imagined in a Victorian Baltimore setting.
  — Chris Kaltenbach, baltimoresun.com, 1 Dec. 2019
• Scottish actor Alastair Sim gives one of the screen’s great performances as Ebeneezer Scrooge, revealing from the start the emotional vulnerability beneath the old miser’s cynical shell.
  — Arthur Herman, National Review, 23 Dec. 2017
• Theater mainstay Geoff Elliot, who co-directs the show and who has traditionally played Scrooge, is rotating as the crackpot miser with actor Henry Lubatti at some performances.
  — Christopher Smith, Oc Register, 26 Nov. 2025
• Francesca Fiorentini, a comedian and podcaster, compared Steyer to Charles Dickens’ fictional miser Ebenezer Scrooge.
  — Seema Mehta, Los Angeles Times, 1 June 2026
• Preachers began to tell anecdotes about deceitful Jewish misers who consorted with the devil; artists began to visualize such tales in grotesque and frightening detail, endowing their Jewish villains with distinctively fleshy and bestial features.
  — Sara Lipton, The New York Review of Books, 17 June 2019
• The classic Dickens story has seen its fair share of retellings over the years with its tale of an elderly miser visited by the ghost of his former business partner and the spirits of Christmas Past, Christmas Present and Christmas Yet to Come.
  — Justin Kroll, Deadline, 4 Nov. 2025
• The classic Charles Dickens story has seen its fair share of retellings over the years with its tale of an elderly miser visited by the ghost of his former business partner and the spirits of Christmas Past, Christmas Present and Christmas Yet to Come.
  — Justin Kroll, Deadline, 23 Oct. 2025