niggardly in English

adjective

1

not generous; stingy.

serving out the rations with a niggardly hand

synonyms: cheap, mean, miserly, parsimonious, close-fisted, penny-pinching, cheeseparing, grasping, ungenerous, illiberal, stingy, tight, tightfisted

adverb

1

in a stingy or meager manner.

So, while I saw the guests sipping niggardly the punch in their short glasses, I helped myself to a decanter.

adjective

cheap, mean, miserly, parsimonious, close-fisted, penny-pinching, cheeseparing, grasping, ungenerous, illiberal, stingy, tight, tightfisted
meager, inadequate, scanty, scant, skimpy, paltry, sparse, insufficient, deficient, short, lean, small, slender, poor, miserable, pitiful, puny, measly, stingy, pathetic, piddling
grudging

Use "niggardly" in a sentence

1. He is niggardly of money.

2. You must sacrifice your poor, squawking, niggardly individuality.

3. He is niggardly with his money.

4. I don't want to seem niggardly.

5. He is not niggardly of praise.

6. Nice calculation is a niggardly thing.

7. Banks have been niggardly in approving loans.

8. He was made to be niggardly and reckless.

9. Forced by hunger, I worked for niggardly pay.

10. She was not niggardly in praising " Maoism " and Mao.

11. Forced by hunger, he worked for the most niggardly pay.

12. The niggardly husband never gave her enough money for food.

13. Don't be niggardly; you can afford to share your good fortune.

14. Be not niggardly of what costs thee nothing , as courtesy , counsel(Sentencedict.com), & countenance.

15. It'seems he a litter niggardly, but if a woman do such action may reasonable.

16. As her land investments grew in amount and number, she became insanely niggardly in personal expenditure.

17. 20 As her land investments grew in amount and number, she became insanely niggardly in personal expenditure.

18. Congress has ever been niggardly when little or no evidence of electoral sentiment is presented to justify more generous appropriations.

19. Officials say the EU, which is supposed to provide most of the food needs, is being particularly niggardly.

20. Upon learning that her husband’s niggardly attitude was going to bring disaster on the household, Abigail decided for herself to take food to David.

21. This page shows answers to the clue Avaricious, followed by 4 definitions like “Actuated by avarice”, “Characterized by avarice” and “Characterized by avarice”.A synonym for Avaricious is niggardly.

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