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non-miserly

non-miserly adjective: not miserly.

Adjective

non-miserly (not comparable)

  1. Not miserly.
    • It was Skip Tracers, acting for a client anxious to pay Mary B. Powers some back dividends from the Glen Alden Coal Company, that traced her to the New York hotel from which she retired as soon as public attention came her way. Small and sixtyish, the non-miserly Miss Powers simply packed up and...1947 April 13, Kenneth O. Smith, “When the $25,000 Knock Sounded”, in The Philadelphia Inquirer, volume 236, number 103, section “Everybody’s Weekly”, page 11
    • “If this affluent society can afford expensive cars, liquor, cosmetics and other luxuries it can most certainly afford a non-miserly system of justice particularly at the lowest level where the greatest impact is felt,” the committee declared.1968 July 12, George Hanst, “Lawyers Urge Court System Reforms”, in The Evening Sun, volume 117, number 73, Baltimore, Md., page C4
    Synonyms:
    unmiserly

Synonyms of non-miserly

Forms of non-miserly

alternative formnonmiserly

Origin of non-miserly

From non- + miserly.

Questions about non-miserly

What does non-miserly mean?
Non-miserly means not miserly.
What part of speech is non-miserly?
Non-miserly is an adjective.

Words near non-miserly in the dictionary

  1. non-mimetic
  2. non-mimetic fiction
  3. non-minimal
  4. non-minimally
  5. non-minor
  6. non-miserly
  7. non-mnemonic
  8. non-mobile
  9. non-modern
  10. non-mol
  11. non-monetary

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