Qualities
Synonyms for miserly
The synonym for miserly recorded in this bank is mean, in the sense "characterized by or indicative of lack of generosity". Below it sits the sentence that fixes that meaning, the same sentence with the swap made, and the words that only look close.
The synonym for miserly
- meanadjective, in the sense "characterized by or indicative of lack of generosity"
That is the whole set. The bank holds one audited synonym per sense of a word, and miserly carries one sense so far.
characterized by or indicative of lack of generosity
He left a miserly tip.
The true synonym
mean
Same sentence, swapped: He left a mean tip.
Close but different
The game offers these three alongside the answer. They are close enough to tempt and wrong enough to be wrong, which is the whole design.
- voracious
- unsatisfied
- ravenous
Where miserly turns up in the game
miserly is the word under test in one puzzle, at Tier 4, High Camp. It also sits on the board as one of the three wrong tiles in one other puzzle, where the answer is a different word entirely.
The puzzle where miserly is the trap
- venaladjective, Tier 4, High Camp. The answer there is dishonest, in the sense "capable of being corrupted", with miserly sitting one tile away.
Play miserly
The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so miserly reaches you as a board rather than a definition: the sentence first, four tiles, and the meaning after you choose.
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Closest first: other qualities words at High Camp, then the same tier across the rest of the library.
The same bank, read from both sides
miserly is an answer in 1 puzzle and a wrong tile in 1. That is how the bank is built, and it is why guessing by vibe stops working around tier three.