About The Word Niggardly
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Niggardly
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What's The Definition Of Niggardly?
[adj] petty in giving or spending; "a niggardly tip"
Synonyms | Synonyms for Niggardly: grudging | scrimy | stingy | ungenerous Related Terms | Find terms related to Niggardly: abstemious | ascetic | austere | bountiful | cheeseparing | chinchy | chintzy | close | closefisted | closefistedly | dwarfed | dwarfish | exiguous | frugal | grudging | illiberal | illiberally | impoverished | infrequent | jejune | lean | Lenten | limited | little | meager | mean | meanly | mingy | miserly | narrow | niggard | paltry | parsimonious | penny-pinching | penurious | petty | piddling | pinchpenny | poor | puny | rare | scant | scanty | scarce | scattered | scrawny | scrimp | scrimping | scrimpy | seldom met with | seldom seen | shabbily | shabby | skimp | skimping | skimpy | slender | slight | slim | small | sordid | sordidly | spare | sparing | sparse | Spartan | spotty | sprinkled | starvation | stingily | stingy | stinted | straitened | stunted | subsistence | thin | tight | tightfisted | tightfistedly | unchivalrous | ungenerous | ungenerously | unnourishing | unnutritious | watered | watery See Also | Niggardly In Webster's Dictionary \Nig"gard*ly\, a.
Meanly covetous or avarcious in dealing with others; stingy;
niggard.
Where the owner of the house will be bountiful, it is
not for the steward to be niggardly. --Bp. Hall.
Syn: Avarcious; covetous; parsimonious; sparing; miserly;
penurios; sordid; stingy. See {Avaricious}.
\Nig"gard*ly\, adv. In a niggard manner. |
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