niggardliness

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niggardliness - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Niggardliness \Nig"gard*li*ness\ (n[i^]g"g[~e]rd*l[i^]*n[e^]s),
     n.
     The quality or state of being niggard; meanness in giving or
     spending; parsimony; stinginess.
     [1913 Webster]
  
           Niggardliness is not good husbandry.     --Addison.
     [1913 Webster]

niggardliness - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  niggardliness
      n 1: extreme stinginess [syn: meanness, minginess,
           niggardliness, niggardness, parsimony,
           parsimoniousness, tightness, tightfistedness,
           closeness]