Miserly
When you ask for a cracker and they give you half. Like the Glossier free samples: something that makes you feel sorry you asked.
What a miserly little piece of nothing. If they don't want to give any, don't offer any.
miserly-angel
Where a woman, to the man's arguably limited perspective, seems both SO generous and yet so ARBITRARY in her offer, such as to induce mental meltdown in the man as a feedback loop he can't process.
-- So he couldn't understand how she was SO generous and yet so ARBITRARY in her offer, and this is now his major pre-occupation.
-- Ah, he feels she's a miserly-angel, and now he worships her.
-- Ah, he feels she's a miserly-angel, and now he worships her.
miserlier
Adjective - having less power, influence, or ability.
The parasite miserlier than most worms