nonmiserly

See also: non-miserly

English

Adjective

nonmiserly (not comparable)

1. Alternative form of non-miserly
   • 1992, Eugene Schlossberger, “A Theory of Responsibility”, in Moral Responsibility and Persons, Philadelphia, Pa.: Temple University Press, →ISBN, section “Objections”, page 135:

     Thus it seems clear that we are not pure choosers. There is no nonmiserly Midas who is, to his chagrin, limited by the miserly dispositions that environment and heredity force upon him, no nonmiserly Midas frustrated by the lack of nonmiserly buttons on his console. For better or worse, miserly Midas is the only Midas there is.

   • 1993, Storm Trooper Steve, quotee, “Turf and Terror: You Ain’t One of Us”, in Susan Goodwillie, editor, Voices from the Future: Our Children Tell Us About Violence in America, New York, N.Y.: Crown Publishers, Inc., →ISBN, section “Racism”, page 118:

     Time and time again people get mad at us for stereotyping Jews as being greedy. I’ve yet to meet a nonmiserly Jew.

   • 2005, Gordon B[laine] Moskowitz, “On Schemas and Cognitive Misers: Mental Representations as the Building Blocks of Impressions”, in Social Cognition: Understanding Self and Others (Texts in Social Psychology), New York, N.Y., London: The Guilford Press, →ISBN, page 186:

     Second, if this process of considering inconsistent information is strenuous, then if people are under cognitive load or taxed, then they should be unable to do it (thus perhaps giving the appearance that they are being miserly and wanting to use least effort, when in fact they are wanting to be effortful and nonmiserly, but are blocked from doing so).

   • 2016, Gretchen Anna Bakke, “The Cardigan Path”, in The Grid: The Fraying Wires Between Americans and Our Energy Future, Bloomsbury, →ISBN, page 87:

     What this clause said was simply that the utilities would need to buy, and move to market, electricity produced by any facility with an output of less than 80 MW (about a tenth of what might have been produced by an average nuclear power plant at the time). And, just as important, they would be obliged to pay a nonmiserly rate for it.

   • 2021, Keith E. Stanovich, “Notes”, in The Bias That Divides Us: The Science and Politics of Myside Thinking, Cambridge, Mass.: The MIT Press, section “Chapter 3”, page 177:

     In studies that use the Cognitive Reflection Test (CRT), I am treating the CRT as a complex indicator of cognitive ability plus numeracy—but also as an indicator of miserly or nonmiserly thinking dispositions (on the complex psychological components measured by the CRT, see Liberali et al. 2012; Patel et al. 2019; Sinayev and Peters 2015; Stanovich, West, and Toplak 2016; Toplak, West, and Stanovich 2011, 2014a).