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Definition of niggardly in English: niggardlyadjective ˈnɪɡədliˈnɪɡərdli 1Ungenerous with money, time, etc.; mean. he accused the Government of being unbelievably niggardly Example sentencesExamples - A movement to expand Medicare from a niggardly program that only barely covers the medical care of the elderly to a full-fledged national healthcare program that covers everyone may also be in the cards.
- He had a broad and generous, rather than a cramped and niggardly, view of the law and its functions.
- Given his prolific output and consistent proficiency, it is testimony to the niggardly artistic heart of the big publishing houses that there hasn't even been a Selected - leave alone a Collected - volume of his poems.
- Now that it's revealed, it seems niggardly and banal - and it calls into question the entire notion of free will and predestination.
- Nor was the Company niggardly in its allocation of funds for carrying out such surveys.
- I remain lukewarm in my ‘praise’ for this change whilst the Conservative Party continues to be so niggardly in its support for the rights of the individual in his/her dealings with the State.
- The wife of a niggardly merchant asks the loan of a hundred francs from a priest to buy finery.
- Many of those who tend to be greedy, envious, and niggardly anyway fall prey to sin.
- As long as I had known him he was, for reasons of pure miserliness, dishonest as an officer, often niggardly in a dirty way, and he owes even today the cash he borrowed from many privates.
- In addition to the film's unevenness as mentioned above, I have to report MGM's usual niggardly approach to supplements.
- He was not like most other celebrities who are often niggardly in recognising new talent.
- Having spent so much time on the concerto to slight the sonata may seem niggardly but I must confess that I really don't appreciate the piece enough to discuss this recording.
- A part of us was with him, a part of us resented our teacher's niggardly preoccupation with formal integrity, and we longed for liberation.
- For some odd reason many of our guys seem to be just downright niggardly!
- It is niggardly in the extreme, however, to refuse to acknowledge what has happened in this land thus far.
- The provincial government is being niggardly about money.
- He also says that, since the publishers have been so niggardly with the advance, they have been generous with their punctuation, adding lots of commas and a few hyphens.
- Brankin has promised financial backing from the Scottish Executive, but the private sector in Scotland has traditionally been niggardly in its support of major golfing events.
- For she is not niggardly, like the smith who fashions the Delphian knife for many uses; she makes each thing for a single use, and every instrument is best made when intended for one and not for many uses.
Synonyms mean, miserly, parsimonious, close-fisted, penny-pinching, cheese-paring, penurious, grasping, greedy, avaricious, Scrooge-like, ungenerous, illiberal, close informal stingy, mingy, tight, tight-fisted, money-grubbing, money-grabbing North American informal cheap vulgar slang tight-arsed archaic near - 1.1 Meagre and given grudgingly.
niggardly allowances from the Treasury a niggardly shoestring budget Example sentencesExamples - Afterwards, the compensation and recognition we provided were niggardly.
- Despite the operational success of the high-quality Australian personnel, that contribution was niggardly and certainly not reflective of the public relations balderdash that accompanied it.
- Faced by those constraints, the soldiers of the Royal Anglians face an uphill task and the official three-year time limit is already looking decidedly niggardly.
- We may very well find that we are contributing, through this niggardly, miserly provision, to further examples of leaky buildings.
- Long-awaited plans for upgrading them are niggardly and short-sighted.
- Given the accelerating pace of cultural change in this last period this seems a niggardly apportionment.
- He must dodge the efforts of Danforth, representing the board of the co-op, from evicting him with a niggardly severance pay.
- This contrasts so markedly with the niggardly travel concessions in this city and the miserable potential offer for the possible future by the miserly Chancellor of the Exchequer.
- If the fee which Germanicus offers is niggardly, which I doubt, then I shall see you are paid what you are worth.
- The freedom he afforded his people was great… but couple it with the niggardly compensation, and you couldn't get anyone good to work for you for very long today.
- The American contribution has been niggardly to the last.
- His readers, on the other hand, certainly read books, but his scraps of praise ‘were so niggardly to the writers he scrutinised that he was held by some to be an equally ineffective medium’.
- To make matters worse, the so-called Group of Ten, which includes Switzerland, Japan and Taiwan, made an even more niggardly counter-offer.
- The high level of vacillation in English policy during the famine years, however, and the existence of even niggardly efforts at relief, are inconsistent with a prior intent to exterminate and a systematic pursuit of that goal.
Synonyms meagre, inadequate, scanty, scant, paltry, limited, restricted, modest, insufficient, sparse, spare, deficient, negligible, insubstantial, skimpy, short, little, lean, small, slight, slender, poor, miserable, pitiful, puny informal measly, stingy, pathetic, piddling rare exiguous
adverb ˈnɪɡədliˈnɪɡərdli archaic In a mean or meagre manner. Example sentencesExamples - So, while I saw the guests sipping niggardly the punch in their short glasses, I helped myself to a decanter.
Usage The word niggardly has no connection with the highly offensive term nigger, but because of the similarity of sound and its negative meaning of ‘mean, ungenerous’ many people are uncomfortable with using it for fear of causing offence, and in the US it is now widely avoided Origin Mid 16th century: from niggard + -ly1. Definition of niggardly in US English: niggardlyadjectiveˈniɡərdlēˈnɪɡərdli 1Not generous; stingy. serving out the rations with a niggardly hand Example sentencesExamples - Nor was the Company niggardly in its allocation of funds for carrying out such surveys.
- A movement to expand Medicare from a niggardly program that only barely covers the medical care of the elderly to a full-fledged national healthcare program that covers everyone may also be in the cards.
- A part of us was with him, a part of us resented our teacher's niggardly preoccupation with formal integrity, and we longed for liberation.
- The wife of a niggardly merchant asks the loan of a hundred francs from a priest to buy finery.
- For she is not niggardly, like the smith who fashions the Delphian knife for many uses; she makes each thing for a single use, and every instrument is best made when intended for one and not for many uses.
- In addition to the film's unevenness as mentioned above, I have to report MGM's usual niggardly approach to supplements.
- The provincial government is being niggardly about money.
- He also says that, since the publishers have been so niggardly with the advance, they have been generous with their punctuation, adding lots of commas and a few hyphens.
- He had a broad and generous, rather than a cramped and niggardly, view of the law and its functions.
- Having spent so much time on the concerto to slight the sonata may seem niggardly but I must confess that I really don't appreciate the piece enough to discuss this recording.
- Brankin has promised financial backing from the Scottish Executive, but the private sector in Scotland has traditionally been niggardly in its support of major golfing events.
- Many of those who tend to be greedy, envious, and niggardly anyway fall prey to sin.
- He was not like most other celebrities who are often niggardly in recognising new talent.
- For some odd reason many of our guys seem to be just downright niggardly!
- It is niggardly in the extreme, however, to refuse to acknowledge what has happened in this land thus far.
- I remain lukewarm in my ‘praise’ for this change whilst the Conservative Party continues to be so niggardly in its support for the rights of the individual in his/her dealings with the State.
- Given his prolific output and consistent proficiency, it is testimony to the niggardly artistic heart of the big publishing houses that there hasn't even been a Selected - leave alone a Collected - volume of his poems.
- Now that it's revealed, it seems niggardly and banal - and it calls into question the entire notion of free will and predestination.
- As long as I had known him he was, for reasons of pure miserliness, dishonest as an officer, often niggardly in a dirty way, and he owes even today the cash he borrowed from many privates.
Synonyms mean, miserly, parsimonious, close-fisted, penny-pinching, cheese-paring, penurious, grasping, greedy, avaricious, scrooge-like, ungenerous, illiberal, close - 1.1 Meager; scanty.
their share is a niggardly 2.7 percent Example sentencesExamples - Long-awaited plans for upgrading them are niggardly and short-sighted.
- The high level of vacillation in English policy during the famine years, however, and the existence of even niggardly efforts at relief, are inconsistent with a prior intent to exterminate and a systematic pursuit of that goal.
- The American contribution has been niggardly to the last.
- He must dodge the efforts of Danforth, representing the board of the co-op, from evicting him with a niggardly severance pay.
- The freedom he afforded his people was great… but couple it with the niggardly compensation, and you couldn't get anyone good to work for you for very long today.
- His readers, on the other hand, certainly read books, but his scraps of praise ‘were so niggardly to the writers he scrutinised that he was held by some to be an equally ineffective medium’.
- To make matters worse, the so-called Group of Ten, which includes Switzerland, Japan and Taiwan, made an even more niggardly counter-offer.
- This contrasts so markedly with the niggardly travel concessions in this city and the miserable potential offer for the possible future by the miserly Chancellor of the Exchequer.
- Given the accelerating pace of cultural change in this last period this seems a niggardly apportionment.
- We may very well find that we are contributing, through this niggardly, miserly provision, to further examples of leaky buildings.
- Faced by those constraints, the soldiers of the Royal Anglians face an uphill task and the official three-year time limit is already looking decidedly niggardly.
- If the fee which Germanicus offers is niggardly, which I doubt, then I shall see you are paid what you are worth.
- Afterwards, the compensation and recognition we provided were niggardly.
- Despite the operational success of the high-quality Australian personnel, that contribution was niggardly and certainly not reflective of the public relations balderdash that accompanied it.
Synonyms meagre, inadequate, scanty, scant, paltry, limited, restricted, modest, insufficient, sparse, spare, deficient, negligible, insubstantial, skimpy, short, little, lean, small, slight, slender, poor, miserable, pitiful, puny
adverbˈniɡərdlēˈnɪɡərdli archaic In a stingy or meager manner. Example sentencesExamples - So, while I saw the guests sipping niggardly the punch in their short glasses, I helped myself to a decanter.
Origin Mid 16th century: from niggard + -ly. |