niggardly

4 definitions found

niggardly - 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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  Niggardly \Nig"gard*ly\, adv.
     In a niggard manner.
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niggardly - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  niggardly
      adj 1: petty or reluctant in giving or spending; "a niggardly
             tip" [syn: grudging, niggardly, scrimy]

niggardly - 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