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Перевод: miser

[прилагательное]
скупой;
[существительное]
скупец ; скряга ; жмот ; бур

Тезаурус:

1. Without doubt he was a peculiar man - a mixture of miser and philanthropist
2. They became adept at portraying well-known types such as the domineering wife, her hen-pecked husband, the poor widow anxious to get a son or daughter wed, the miser, the guardian or the severe nurse and at spotting any odd person or antics.
3. Leapor sees such a woman degrading herself as a miser:
4. Splitting creates idealized images as well as vilification: the quiet, kindly grandmother, the benevolent granddad, the wise elder, set against the dried-up spinster, the interfering granny, the miser, the dirty old man, the bedsoiler.
5. Chapter 3 of Merryweather's Lives and Anecdotes of Misers is headed "Traditionary Recollections of John Overs, the Southwark Miser"; Overs, according to tradition, amassed a huge fortune by running a ferry service between Southwark and the City of London "before any bridge was builded".
6. When Dauberval defined what he meant by dances of character he undoubtedly had in mind some easily recognised characters of the commedia dell'arte, whose actors regularly played such roles as the absent-minded doctor or scientist, miser, termagant wife or widow and various clowns such as the sad Pierrot or zany clown.
7. Of him therefore the hymned and reviled, the loved and loathed, spendthrift and miser, king and beggar of King Richard Yea-and-Nay, so made, so called, I thus prepare my account.
8. Polly James, as the matchmaker Frosine, is energetic and endlessly scheming as she attempts to marry off the daughter and her lover Valre, who is masquerading as the Miser's steward, and the son and Mariane, who is also the object of the father's desire.
9. A typical miser, he hid his money in the house in various places.
10. It is known that Freemantle criticized "An Essay on Woman" when it was written; apart from concerns with Leapor's penmanship, it seems that she objected to the description of a miser and the reflections on wealth which follow.
11. THE Royal Exchange Theatre Company's production of a new translation of Moliere's The Miser is playing at the Yvonne Arnaud Theatre, Guildford until tomorrow (Saturday).
12. On a set of Heath Robinson ingenuity with suspended buckets, antique plumbing and piles of dusty books and furniture - all part of the Miser's hoard of battered possessions - Tom Courtenay schemes, struts and raves as he seeks to protect his two million francs.
13. usurer and miser, "a squeezing, wrenching, grasping, scraping, clutching, covetous old sinner!