in a stingy or cheap manner
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Niggardly Definition from Language, Idioms & Slang Dictionaries & Glossaries
(adv.)
In a niggard manner.
In a niggard manner.
(a.)
Meanly covetous or avarcious in dealing with others; stingy; niggard.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), edited by Noah Porter. AboutMeanly covetous or avarcious in dealing with others; stingy; niggard.
niggardly
\nig"gard*ly\, a. meanly covetous or avarcious in dealing with others; stingy; niggard. where the owner of the house will be bountiful, it is not for the steward to be niggardly. hall.
Stingy. (no longer acceptable to use)
Crintach = a. niggardly
Crintachu = v. to grow niggardly
grudgingly mean about spending money
eg:"No stranger aftermath" developed after the war, Thorek recalled, "than the sudden hope, surging through feminine--and sometimes masculine--hearts, that where nature had been niggardly in her gifts of pulchritude, the knife of the surgeon could remedy the lack." (Elizabeth Haiken, Venus Envy: A History of Cosmetic Surgery)
eg:"No stranger aftermath" developed after the war, Thorek recalled, "than the sudden hope, surging through feminine--and sometimes masculine--hearts, that where nature had been niggardly in her gifts of pulchritude, the knife of the surgeon could remedy the lack." (Elizabeth Haiken, Venus Envy: A History of Cosmetic Surgery)
Adjective
1. petty in giving or spending; "a niggardly tip"
(synonym) grudging, scrimy
(similar) stingy, ungenerous
Niggardly Definition from Encyclopedia Dictionaries & Glossaries
In the United States, there have been several controversies concerning the word "niggardly," an adjective meaning "stingy" or "miserly," due to its phonetic similarity to the racial slur "nigger." The two words are etymologically unrelated.
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