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avare in English:

1. miser's miser's



English word "avare"(miser's) occurs in sets:

Fiches du livre - "Rockhaven" (Charles Munn)
Fiches du livre - "Poems" (Iris Tree)
Fiches du livre - "May Brooke" (Anna H. Dorsey)
Fiches du livre - "Ballads of Books" (Various)
Fiches du livre - "Ballads of Beauty" (Various)

2. niggardly


Of a rich man who was niggardly he said, "That man does not own his estate, but his estate owns him."

English word "avare"(niggardly) occurs in sets:

Fiches du livre - "Calvary A Novel" (Octave Mirbeau)
Fiches du livre - "The Prince" (Nicoló Machiavelli)
Fiches du livre - "Sermons for the Day" (Edward Ho...
Fiches du livre - "A Pioneer Mother" (Hamlin Garland)
Fiches du livre - "The Way of the Gods" (John Luth...

3. niggard



English word "avare"(niggard) occurs in sets:

Fiches du livre - "De Profundis" (Oscar Wilde)
Fiches du livre - "Percy A Tragedy" (Hannah More)
Fiches du livre - "Familiar Faces" (Harry Graham)
Fiches du livre - "The Conquest of Fear" (Basil King)
Fiches du livre - "Sonnets and Poems" (Eleanor Far...

4. miser


A miser hoards money not because he is prudent but because he is greedy.
It is true he is rich, but he is a miser.
miser somebody who loves money but hates spending it
A miser may die with his money still hidden in the mattress.
The miser liked to sit and play with his money
What a miser you are!
My neighbor is a penny-pinching old miser who won't even give you the time of day.

English word "avare"(miser) occurs in sets:

Fiches du livre - "On Strike Till 3" (Grant Balfour)
Fiches du livre - "Fun and Nonsense" (Willard Bonte)
Fiches du livre - "Artful Anticks" (Oliver Herford)
Fiches du livre - "Bessie in the City" (Joanna Mat...
Fiches du livre - "Self-Doomed A Novel" (B. L. Far...

5. avaricious


... nor, on the contrary, avaricious; for whenever he knew...

English word "avare"(avaricious) occurs in sets:

Fiches du livre - "Gossip" (Mona Gould)
Fiches du livre - "Arabian Wisdom" (John Wortabet)
Fiches du livre - "Pierre Grassou" (Honore de Balzac)
Fiches du livre - "Gamblers and Gambling" (Henry W...
Fiches du livre - "Tales and Legends of the Tyrol"...

6. stingy


Tom is very stingy.
Take back what you said about me being stingy.
Despite all his wealth, he is stingy.
He is inclined to look at everything from the standpoint of its practicality and is neither stingy nor extravagant.
Once upon a time, there lived a stingy old man in the village.
Katherine is a stingy woman. She's always trying to get discounts at the store and avoid spending money.
Accordingly as people become rich, they are apt to be stingy.
My wonderful wife is so stingy that ... "You boasting? Or complaining?"
he's so stingy that he always makes reverse charge calls
“his employer is stingy and idle”
A stingy person is someone who isn't generous with their money
I could be very generous... or very stingy. I can make you a legend!
He's really stingy and never buys anyone a drink when we go out.
The returns revealed the Bidens to be stingy when it came to charity, givingan average of $369 a year for the last decade.

English word "avare"(stingy) occurs in sets:

Fiches du livre - "Handyman" (Frank Banta)
Fiches du livre - "Bimmie Says" (Sydney Van Scyoc)
CAE 401 - 425
1: adjectives