Miserlily

Quick meaning: Miserlily is an adverb meaning In a miserly manner.

Meaning

In a miserly manner.

Example Sentences

I would be seated so cozily by your side, with Molly (kiss her for me, won’t you ?) on my knee, while we would chat, and laugh, and miserlily count over our hoards of pleasant memories.

He published his dissertation and two text-books, and then began writing a continuing series of rather brilliant little monographs on a variety of subjects. They were short, incisive, novel contributions to learning, and, when graduate students began having to buy them, he became moderately and miserlily wealthy.

Jajan means to serve one’s neighbours and elate them. We serve but miserlily our environment nowadays, and the whole country goes on like that. Big men tell us to be charitable, but we need impulse from within for works of charity. That is why jawjan is so important. It is the basis of jajan. And that is why we prefer jajaks, adharjus, and ritwiks to lead us in works of public service.

At Leigh. Alone with them. Angel in France. It rained most of the time. It bores me terribly, being with them. The absolute empty dryness of such an existence. We seize on the little felicities – M’s cooking, F’s sporadic culture and old man’s endearingness. But the deadness at the heart of things. They shuffle through life now, subsisting mainly on television and gossip; gossip gone over and over again, miserlily.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include stingily, hoardingly, miserably, scrimpingly, parsimoniously, mistily.

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