Sentence examples of "скупости" in Russian with translation "miserliness"

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Возможно, даже правительства некоторых богатых нефтью стран будут смущены вниманием к их скупости в вопросах благотворительности Perhaps even some oil-rich governments will be embarrassed by attention to their miserliness in doling out assistance.
Но смысл, заложенный Чарльзом Диккенсом, заключался именно в том, что Скрудж был великим неудачником из-за своей самонадеянности, скупости и высокомерия. But Charles Dickens’s point was precisely that Scrooge was the great loser from his arrogance, miserliness, and insolence.
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