Word Meanings - PICKPENNY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A miser; also, a sharper. Dr. H. More.

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• MISERABLENESS
  The state or quality of being miserable.
• SHARPER
  A person who bargains closely, especially, one who cheats in bargains; a swinder; also, a cheating gamester. Sharpers, as pikes, prey upon their own kind. L'Estrange. Syn. -- Swindler; cheat; deceiver; trickster; rogue. See Swindler.
• MISERABLE
  1. Very unhappy; wretched. What hopes delude thee, miserable man Dryden. 2. Causing unhappiness or misery. What 's more miserable than discontent Shak. 3. Worthless; mean; despicable; as, a miserable fellow; a miserable dinner. Miserable comforters
• MISER
  1. A wretched person; a person afflicted by any great misfortune. Spenser. The woeful words of a miser now despairing. Sir P. Sidney. 2. A despicable person; a wretch. Shak. 3. A covetous, grasping, mean person; esp., one having wealth, who lives
• MISERY
  1. Great unhappiness; extreme pain of body or mind; wretchedness; distress; woe. Chaucer. Destruction and misery are in their ways. Rom. iii. 16. 2. Cause of misery; calamity; misfortune. When we our betters see bearing our woes, We scarcely think
• MISERLY
  Like a miser; very covetous; sordid; niggardly. Syn. -- Avaricious; niggardly; sordid; parsimonious; penurious; covetous; stingy; mean. See Avaricious.
• MISERICORDE
  See 2 (more info) 1. Compassion; pity; mercy.
• MISERATION
  Commiseration.
• MISERABLY
  In a miserable; unhappily; calamitously; wretchedly; meanly. They were miserably entertained. Sir P. Sidney. The fifth was miserably stabbed to death. South.
• MISERERE
  The psalm usually appointed for penitential acts, being the 50th psalm in the Latin version. It commences with the word miserere. 2. A musical composition adapted to the 50th psalm. Where only the wind signs miserere. Lowell.
• MISERICORDIA
  An amercement. Burrill.
• COMMISERATION
  The act of commiserating; sorrow for the wants, afflictions, or distresses of another; pity; compassion. And pluck commiseration of his state From brassy bosoms and rough hearts of flint. Shak. Syn. -- See Sympathy.
• COMMISERATIVE
  Feeling or expressing commiseration. Todd.
• COMPROMISER
  One who compromises.
• PROMISER
  One who promises.
• COMMISERABLE
  Pitiable. Bacon.
• COMMISERATE
  To feel sorrow, pain, or regret for; to pity. Then must we those, who groan, beneath the weight Of age, disease, or want, commiserate. Denham. We should commiserate our mutual ignorance. Locke. Syn. -- To pity; compassionate; lament; condole.
• COMMISERATOR
  One who pities.
• SURMISER
  One who surmises.