Miserly

miserly
    adj 1: (used of persons or behavior) characterized by or
           indicative of lack of generosity; "a mean person"; "he
           left a miserly tip" [syn: {mean}, {mingy}, {miserly},
           {tight}]
    

Miserly \Mi"ser*ly\ (m[imac]"z[~e]r*l[y^]), a. [From {Miser}.]
   Like a miser; very covetous; avaricious; stingy; sordid;
   niggardly.
   [1913 Webster]

   Syn: Avaricious; niggardly; sordid; parsimonious; avaricious;
        penurious; covetous; stingy; mean. See {Avaricious}.
        [1913 Webster]
    

119 Moby Thesaurus words for "miserly":
      Lenten, Spartan, a hog for, abject, abstemious, acquisitive,
      all-devouring, ascetic, austere, avaricious, avid, bottomless,
      cheap, cheeseparing, chinchy, chintzy, close, closefisted,
      coveting, covetous, devouring, dwarfed, dwarfish, esurient,
      exiguous, frugal, gluttonous, gobbling, grabby, grasping, greedy,
      hardfisted, hoggish, ignoble, illiberal, impoverished, infrequent,
      insatiable, insatiate, jejune, lean, limited, limitless, meager,
      mean, mercenary, mingy, money-hungry, money-mad, narrow, near,
      niggardly, omnivorous, overgreedy, paltry, parsimonious,
      penny-pinching, penurious, piddling, piggish, pinchfisted,
      pinching, poor, puny, quenchless, rapacious, rare, ravening,
      ravenous, save-all, scant, scanty, scarce, scattered, scrawny,
      scrimp, scrimping, scrimpy, seldom met with, seldom seen, skimp,
      skimping, skimpy, slakeless, slender, slight, slim, small, sordid,
      spare, sparing, sparse, spotty, sprinkled, starvation, stingy,
      stinted, straitened, stunted, subsistence, swinish, thin, tight,
      tight-fisted, tightfisted, unappeasable, unappeased, ungenerous,
      unnourishing, unnutritious, unquenchable, unsated, unsatisfied,
      unslakeable, unslaked, venal, voracious, watered, watery