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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