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niggardliness

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nig·gard·ly  (ngrd-l)
adj.
1. Grudging and petty in giving or spending.
2. Meanly small; scanty or meager: left the waiter a niggardly tip.
niggard·li·ness n.
niggard·ly adv.
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Noun1.niggardliness - extreme stinginess
minginess, niggardness, tightfistedness, meanness, parsimoniousness, parsimony, closeness, tightness
stinginess - a lack of generosity; a general unwillingness to part with money
littleness, pettiness, smallness - lack of generosity in trifling matters
miserliness - total lack of generosity with money
Translations
niggardliness [ˈnɪgədlɪnɪs] N → tacañería f
niggardliness
n (of person) → Knaus(e)rigkeit f; (of amount, portion also) → Armseligkeit f, → Kümmerlichkeit f


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" The farmer, seeing before him this figure in full armour brandishing a lance over his head, gave himself up for dead, and made answer meekly, "Sir Knight, this youth that I am chastising is my servant, employed by me to watch a flock of sheep that I have hard by, and he is so careless that I lose one every day, and when I punish him for his carelessness and knavery he says I do it out of niggardliness, to escape paying him the wages I owe him, and before God, and on my soul, he lies.
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I was deciding between money and men, between niggardliness and romance.
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When their suspicions of our niggardliness or lack of peanuts had been confirmed, Jones half-turned his back on his life-partner and gave me his story.
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