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The miserly priest who was Lazarillo de Tormes' second master in the Spanish picaresque novel published in 1554. [111] Yan Jiansheng in an episode of The Scholars by Wu Jingzi (吳敬梓), written about 1750. This miser was unable to die easily until a wasteful second wick was removed from the lamp at his bedside. [112]
Misanthropy may also deprive the person of most pleasures by making them miserable and friendless. [ 92 ] Another form of criticism focuses more on the theoretical level and claims that misanthropy is an inconsistent and self-contradictory position.
Hetty Green is remembered as the “world’s greatest miser” and the “Witch of Wall Street," but these days, Green would likely be seen as an eccentric investing icon.
The She-Wolf (1931) and You Can't Buy Everything (1934) are films about miserly billionaire businesswomen based on Green and played by Australian-born actress May Robson. King of the Hill (2004) S8S8 "Rich Hank, Poor Hank" Connie mentions Green by saying that extremely wealthy people who are also cheap, often have a mental illness.
In the United States, there have been several controversies involving the misunderstanding of the word niggardly, an adjective meaning "stingy" or "miserly", because of its phonetic similarity to nigger, an ethnic slur used against black people. Although the two words are etymologically unrelated, niggard is nonetheless often replaced with a ...
A loner is a person described as not seeking out, actively avoiding, or failing to maintain interpersonal relationships. There are many potential causes for this solitude. Intentional causes include introversion, mysticism, spirituality, religion, or personal considerations. [1] [2] Unintentional causes involve high sensitivity or shyness.
Lists of pejorative terms for people include: . List of ethnic slurs. List of ethnic slurs and epithets by ethnicity; List of common nouns derived from ethnic group names
This segment represents the nadir of his rhetoric – an ungenerous, fatphobic tangent which places the blame for society’s ills on the unhealthy poor, not, as his thesis originally proposed ...