niggardly

from WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)
niggardly
    adj 1: petty or reluctant in giving or spending; "a niggardly
           tip" [syn: {grudging}, {niggardly}, {scrimy}]
    
from 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.
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         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 The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Niggardly \Nig"gard*ly\, adv.
   In a niggard manner.
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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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