niggardly
21niggardly — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) adj. cheap, stingy, miserly, close, parsimonious, ungenerous; grudging; tight; mean. See parsimony, unimportance. Ant., generous. II (Roget s IV) modif. Syn. miserly, parsimonious, stingy; see greedy 1 …
22niggardly — nig·gard·ly || nɪgÉ™rdlɪ adv. in a stingy or cheap manner …
23niggardly — adjective ungenerous; mean. ↘meagre and given grudgingly. adverb archaic in a mean or meagre manner. Derivatives niggardliness noun …
24niggardly — a. 1. Parsimonious, covetous, stingy, avaricious, miserly, penurious, sordid, mean, illiberal, mercenary, niggard, close, close fisted. 2. Saving, sparing, chary …
25niggardly — adj 1. stingy, parsimonious, miserly, carking, skinflinty; mean, tight, tight fisted, close fisted; cheap, Sl. chintzy, moneygrubbing, grasping; penurious, Rare. illiberal, cheeseparing; scrimping, penny pinching, grudging, begrudging, ungenerous …
26niggardly — nig·gard·ly …
27niggardly — Pī, kulipa a …
28niggardly — adj. & adv. adj. 1 stingy, parsimonious. 2 meagre, scanty. adv. in a stingy or meagre manner. Derivatives: niggardliness n …
29Controversies about the word "niggardly" — 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. Contents 1… …
30stingy — stingy, close, closefisted, tight, tightfisted, niggardly, parsimonious, penurious, miserly, cheeseparing, penny pinching can mean unwilling or manifesting unwillingness to share one s goods with others or to give to another a part of one s… …
