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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Niggardly \Nig"gard*ly\ (n[i^]g"g[~e]rd*l[y^]), adjective Meanly covetous or avaricious in dealing with others; stingy; niggard.
Where the owner of the house will be bountiful, it is not for the steward to be niggardly. --Bp. Hall.
Syn: Avaricious; covetous; parsimonious; sparing; miserly; penurious; sordid; stingy. See {Avaricious}.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Niggardly \Nig"gard*ly\, adverb In a niggard manner.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
niggardly
adjective: petty in giving or spending; "a niggardly tip" [syn: {grudging}, {scrimy}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
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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