Usually means: Stingy or miserly in giving.
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  1. niggardly: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. niggardly: Merriam-Webster
  3. niggardly: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. niggardly: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. niggardly: Collins English Dictionary
  6. niggardly: Vocabulary.com
  7. Niggardly, niggardly: Wordnik
  8. niggardly: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. niggardly: Wiktionary
  10. niggardly: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. niggardly: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. niggardly: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. Niggardly, niggardly: Dictionary.com
  14. Niggardly: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  15. niggardly: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  16. niggardly: Rhymezone
  17. Niggardly: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  18. niggardly: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  19. niggardly: FreeDictionary.org
  20. niggardly: Mnemonic Dictionary
  21. niggardly: TheFreeDictionary.com
  22. Niggardly: World Wide Words

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. niggardly: Legal dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. niggardly: Wordcraft Dictionary

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▸ adjective:  Withholding for the sake of meanness; stingy, miserly.
▸ adverb:  (now rare) In a parsimonious way; sparingly, stingily.

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scrimy, stingy, grudging, ungenerous, niggard, closefisted, penurious, scant, skimping, lean, more...

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generous, liberal, bountiful, lavish, munificent

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stingy, cheap, miserly, parsimonious, avaricious, more...

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Similar:
scrimy, stingy, grudging, ungenerous, niggard, closefisted, penurious, scant, skimping, lean, more...

Opposite:
generous, liberal, bountiful, lavish, munificent

Types:
stingy, cheap, miserly, parsimonious, avaricious, more...

Phrases:
Controversies about the word niggardly, more...



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