niggardly
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Niggardly \Nig"gard*ly\ (n[i^]g"g[~e]rd*l[y^]), a.
Meanly covetous or avaricious in dealing with others; stingy;
niggard.
[1913 Webster]
Where the owner of the house will be bountiful, it is
not for the steward to be niggardly. --Bp. Hall.
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Syn: Avaricious; covetous; parsimonious; sparing; miserly;
penurious; sordid; stingy. See {Avaricious}.
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from
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
86 Moby Thesaurus words for "niggardly":
Lenten, Spartan, abstemious, ascetic, austere, bountiful,
cheeseparing, chinchy, chintzy, close, closefisted, closefistedly,
dwarfed, dwarfish, exiguous, frugal, grudging, illiberal,
illiberally, impoverished, infrequent, jejune, lean, 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, spotty, sprinkled,
starvation, stingily, stingy, stinted, straitened, stunted,
subsistence, thin, tight, tightfisted, tightfistedly, unchivalrous,
ungenerous, ungenerously, unnourishing, unnutritious, watered,
watery
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