What's the difference between miser and mister?

Miser


Definition:

  • (n.) A wretched person; a person afflicted by any great misfortune.
  • (n.) A despicable person; a wretch.
  • (n.) A covetous, grasping, mean person; esp., one having wealth, who lives miserably for the sake of saving and increasing his hoard.
  • (n.) A kind of large earth auger.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) He told strikers at St Thomas’ hospital, London: “By taking action on such a miserable morning you are sending a strong message that decent men and women in the jewel of our civilisation are not prepared to be treated as second-class citizens any more.
  • (2) "It's always been done in a really miserable way in the past, but this is fresh and new.
  • (3) Supporting a Sunderland side who had last won a home Premier League game back in January, when Stoke City were narrowly defeated, is not a pursuit for the faint-hearted but this was turning into the equivalent of the sudden dawning of a gloriously hot sunny day amid a miserable, cold, wet summer.
  • (4) People like Hugo forgot how truly miserable Paris had been for ordinary Parisians.” Out of a job and persona non grata in Paris, Haussmann spent six months in Italy to lift his spirits.
  • (5) But my characters are either really strong, miserable or tortured."
  • (6) A full marching band moved through a sea of umbrellas, playing the Les Miserables song Do You Hear the People Sing.
  • (7) Similarly at world level, it considers the struggles and efforts by the miserable and oppressed nations for achievement of their legitimate rights and independence as their due rights, because people have the right to liberate their countries from colonialism and obtain their rights.
  • (8) My first marriage is the only thing I've ever failed at and I failed miserably."
  • (9) If after 10 years the Californian law is working well: that’s to say it is not being used against the weak and miserable as a cheaper alternative to proper palliative care, there will be no reason not to extend it here.
  • (10) Low point: "When a show I directed, Paul Simon's The Capeman, failed miserably."
  • (11) The smile, so noticeably absent during a miserable final season at his boyhood club, was back.
  • (12) His father died when Giulio was two, and the family survived on his mother's miserly widow's pension.
  • (13) Roberto Firmino and Adam Lallana established a comfortable advantage for the home side, only for Adam Johnson’s free-kick, and Simon Mignolet’s weak attempt to stop it, plus Defoe’s clinical late strike to extend Liverpool’s miserable run to five points out of 18 in 2016.
  • (14) This drubbing exposed not only the team's inadequacy on the day in the face of a rampant United side who sensed miserable resistance almost from the kick-off, but also Arsène Wenger's tepid commitment to the FA Cup, whatever his ready-made complaints of depleted resources before and after.
  • (15) "He truly had such a miserable time on the first day or two of the shoot.
  • (16) Fair pay, not benefits or subsidies to miserly employers, brought Labour into being – so why is the party in danger of letting this strong emblematic policy slip away?
  • (17) On the positive side, it will very soon overtake Les Miserables (£40.8m) to become the second-biggest 2013 release, behind only Despicable Me 2 (£47.4m).
  • (18) Smoldering resentment, chronic anger, self-centeredness, vindictiveness, and a constant feeling of being abused ultimately produce a miserable human being who, as well as being alienated from self, alienates those in the interpersonal sphere.
  • (19) As soon as you live in the place, it becomes grey and miserable – as do the people.
  • (20) The good thing about the above is the equal-opportunities nature of it: almost everyone is made to feel inadequate or miserable.

Mister


Definition:

  • (n.) A title of courtesy prefixed to the name of a man or youth. It is usually written in the abbreviated form Mr.
  • (v. t.) To address or mention by the title Mr.; as, he mistered me in a formal way.
  • (n.) A trade, art, or occupation.
  • (n.) Manner; kind; sort.
  • (n.) Need; necessity.
  • (v. i.) To be needful or of use.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The form of address for British surgeons--"Mister" instead of "Doctor"--has mystified other members of the medical profession for years.
  • (2) Even if he is Il Mister, this is an extraordinary thing for a manager of Juventus to say, maybe even a nod to the possibility of returning to the Premier League one day.
  • (3) Lippi's spectre came into sharper focus after the Fiorentina defeat, with whispers across the pages of the football press and furious blogging to and fro on Juve's website - echoing Ranieri's Chelsea days, actually, with most fans urging support for Il Mister and concentration on the matter in hand, whatever the long term.
  • (4) MisterRed 07 May 2014 6:46pm Leeds: LSD and a couple of E's 77E112E1240H 07 May 2014 8:34pm Rotterdam - Bring Your Own Beaver.
  • (5) What is certain is that the fans of Leicester will sing painted blue and that Ranieri is Mister Volare,” he said.
  • (6) The author attempts to show that the designation "Mister" is neither an affectation nor a denigration but a natural consequence of the history of British barbery, barber-surgery and ultimately surgery, resulting from the advice and tutelage of King Henry VIII and Parliament.
  • (7) Mister, I cannot breathe …” One of the soldiers came and untightened the belt, not very comfortably but better than nothing.
  • (8) He was mister nobody, people found it difficult to accept him."
  • (9) One of his motivations was Cary's Nigeria-set novel Mister Johnson, which, though much praised by English critics, seemed to him "a most superficial picture of Nigeria and the Nigerian character".
  • (10) Mister, please … belt …” A guard responded, but he not only didn’t help me, he tightened the belt even more around my abdomen.
  • (11) While the second novel takes up and retells the plot of Mister Johnson – the story of a young Nigerian clerk who takes a bribe and is tried and sentenced by the colonial administration – the first seeks, with consummate success, to evoke the culture and society Mister Johnson and his ancestors might have come from.
  • (12) At 13, he spent a week in London, where he found a paperback of Alan Lomax ’s Mister Jelly Roll: The Fortunes of Jelly Roll Morton, New Orleans Creole and Inventor of Jazz ; the cover promised to explain how “he put the heat into hot music”.
  • (13) (Pierce, aka J Spaceman, produced the wonderfully weird soundtrack for Mister Lonely.)
  • (14) His Nashville-born wife appears in Mister Lonely, as a girl who impersonates Little Red Riding Hood.
  • (15) He's obviously worried I'm going to turn him into some kind of tabloid caricature - Mister Happy turns his back on smack - and seeks to put the record straight.
  • (16) With its wit and side order of double entendre – "Oh mister, don't touch me tomatoes" – calypso fitted easily into the national psyche.
  • (17) 2.15am GMT Michael Solomon (@Mister_Solomon) Is it possible the Tigers caught something from the Yankees?
  • (18) Where Ronald Reagan had stood in front of the Berlin Wall and cried, “Mister Gorbachev, tear down this wall!”, Clinton stood in the Newseum in Washington and cried, in effect, “Mister Hu, tear down this firewall!” But Xi Jinping succeeded Hu Jintao, and China’s internet firewall – sorry, “Golden Shield” – is still there.
  • (19) I’m talking to the Labour party.” Please, Mister Postman review – a charming sequel from Alan Johnson Read more This is an unavoidable tightrope.
  • (20) They mostly boil down to inter-male rivalries and hierarchies of masculinity – the pecker pecking order, if you will: the bigger the mister, the bigger the man.