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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Niggardly \Nig"gard*ly\ (n[i^]g"g[~e]rd*l[y^]), a.
     Meanly covetous or avaricious in dealing with others; stingy;
     niggard.
     [1913 Webster]
  
           Where the owner of the house will be bountiful, it is


           not for the steward to be niggardly.     --Bp. Hall.
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     Syn: Avaricious; covetous; parsimonious; sparing; miserly;
          penurious; sordid; stingy. See {Avaricious}.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Niggardly \Nig"gard*ly\, adv.
     In a niggard manner.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  niggardly
       adj : petty in giving or spending; "a niggardly tip" [syn: {grudging},
              {scrimy}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  86 Moby Thesaurus words for "niggardly":
     Lenten, Spartan, abstemious, ascetic, austere, bountiful,
     cheeseparing, chinchy, chintzy, close, closefisted, closefistedly,
     dwarfed, dwarfish, exiguous, frugal, grudging, illiberal,
     illiberally, impoverished, infrequent, jejune, lean, limited,
     little, meager, mean, meanly, mingy, miserly, narrow, niggard,
     paltry, parsimonious, penny-pinching, penurious, petty, piddling,
     pinchpenny, poor, puny, rare, scant, scanty, scarce, scattered,
     scrawny, scrimp, scrimping, scrimpy, seldom met with, seldom seen,
     shabbily, shabby, skimp, skimping, skimpy, slender, slight, slim,
     small, sordid, sordidly, spare, sparing, sparse, spotty, sprinkled,
     starvation, stingily, stingy, stinted, straitened, stunted,
     subsistence, thin, tight, tightfisted, tightfistedly, unchivalrous,
     ungenerous, ungenerously, unnourishing, unnutritious, watered,
     watery
  
  

















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