niggard
IPA: nˈɪgɝd
noun
- A miser or stingy person; a skinflint.
- A false bottom in a grate, used for saving fuel.
verb
- (intransitive) To hoard; to act stingily.
adjective
- Sparing; stinting; parsimonious.
- Miserly or stingy.
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Examples of "niggard" in Sentences
- The man was a niggard.
- Pauline was no niggard.
- He measured out his niggard alms.
- They dealt out with no niggard hand.
- That niggard land never made him rich.
- The railroad was no niggard to its servants.
- Nature has been niggard of rain but lavish in soil and sun.
- Sweet summer had scattered her treasures with no niggard hand.
- My brethren, I must do them the justice to say, were no niggards of information.
- There he sits, a strange exotic, transplanted from the delectable alcoves of the old manorial mansion, to take root in this niggard soil.
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