miserliness

基本解釋

Nearly a third said that fiddling expenses was acceptable, for example because of below-inflation pay rises and other miserliness by employers.
有將近三分之一的人稱虛報開支是可以接受的，比如出于雇主加薪低于通貨膨脹率和其它貪婪的行為。
The Delta's problems do not stem from the federal government's miserliness towards local people, as is often claimed, but from the theft of the funds it sends the region.
三角洲的問題并不像所說的那樣是根源于聯(lián)邦政府對本地居民的吝嗇，而是根源于政府對該地區(qū)發(fā)放的救濟(jì)資金遭到盜竊。
But his miserliness was offset by a generosity toward the victims of the systems he despised.
他的吝嗇卻由于他向著所輕視體制中受害人的慷慨所彌補(bǔ)。

In many cases the problem does not seem to be miserliness so much as ignorance.
ECONOMIST: Philanthropy