Adjective : a niggardly tip to a waiter. From Dictionary.com.
Baghdad’; for niggardliness is the worst fault a man can have. From Wordnik.com. [The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night] Reference
Shrewd calculation and niggardliness too are normally absent. From Wordnik.com. [The Minister and the Boy A Handbook for Churchmen Engaged in Boys' Work] Reference
The more inexcusable therefore is he for his niggardliness to his Welshwoman. From Wordnik.com. [Sir Charles Grandison] Reference
Wealth alone is the root of niggardliness and boastfulness, pride and fear and anxiety!. From Wordnik.com. [The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 1 Books 1, 2 and 3] Reference
It's not the complete idiocy of it that I mind, it's the boldfaced niggardliness of it all. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2008-06-01] Reference
By way of a crushing suggestion of niggardliness on their part I enclosed a stamped addressed envelope. From Wordnik.com. [Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 152, January 17, 1917] Reference
He reproached the Priest-Kings with their niggardliness, and what he regarded as their breach of faith. From Wordnik.com. [Dancer Of Gor]
She is a girl who takes your love for granted in the same way as she gives hers, without niggardliness. From Wordnik.com. [The Kempton-Wace Letters] Reference
After all, where envy reigns virtue cannot live, and where there is niggardliness there can be no liberality. From Wordnik.com. [Don Quixote] Reference
It was not ill-will, for they gave us all else we wanted; nor was it niggardliness, for their total help to the. From Wordnik.com. [Seven Pillars of Wisdom] Reference
Against him that is niggardly of his bread, the city will murmur, and the testimony of his niggardliness is true. From Wordnik.com. [The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 26: Ecclesiasticus The Challoner Revision] Reference
Yet Damascus would view these concessions either as signs of niggardliness or desperation, and hold out for more. From Wordnik.com. [Condi's Road to Damascus] Reference
These were courtesies, yes, but they cost nothing and their absence bespoke a certain niggardliness of hospitality. From Wordnik.com. [The Lark And The Wren]
At least, he had never learned to make any effort to cure this unfortunate niggardliness that made him seem so unkind. From Wordnik.com. [Ruth Fielding and the Gypsies The Missing Pearl Necklace] Reference
For hitherto, owing to his repulsive niggardliness, not only the tallow-candle but also the grease-lamp has been extinguished. From Wordnik.com. [Taras Bulba and Other Tales] Reference
With great niggardliness, the prepared foods were doled out, a piece at a time, but when they were distributed, how good they tasted. From Wordnik.com. [Hawaii]
When they went over the accounts of the estates lie betrayed a revolting greed, a niggardliness, and an incomprehensible suspiciousness. From Wordnik.com. [The Insulted and the Injured] Reference
We need also to give this daily meed of praise to those who deserve it, that we may keep ourselves unselfish, and root out from ourselves all niggardliness. From Wordnik.com. [Lessons in Life A Series of Familiar Essays] Reference
Baghdad '; for niggardliness is the worst fault a man can have. From Wordnik.com. [Arabian nights. English] Reference
You have also heard much of his niggardliness in money transactions. From Wordnik.com. [Lectures on Architecture and Painting Delivered at Edinburgh in November 1853] Reference
I was deciding between money and men, between niggardliness and romance. From Wordnik.com. [John Barleycorn] Reference
There was no niggardliness in the trade the Vose folks made with Captain. From Wordnik.com. [Blow The Man Down A Romance Of The Coast - 1916] Reference
She was capable of refusal, but not of half-measures or of niggardliness. From Wordnik.com. [In the Wilderness] Reference
Eddie slumped down in his chair, muttering something about niggardliness. From Wordnik.com. [Her Weight in Gold] Reference
But might he not have had some other reason for his apparent niggardliness?. From Wordnik.com. [The Filigree Ball Being a full and true account of the solution of the mystery concerning the Jeffrey-Moore affair] Reference
+The reluctant doling out of insufficient aid to the poor is niggardliness. From Wordnik.com. [Practical Ethics] Reference
Luxury at home and niggardliness in God's work make an ugly pair, but, alas!. From Wordnik.com. [Expositions of Holy Scripture Deuteronomy, Joshua, Judges, Ruth, and First Book of Samuel, Second Samuel, First Kings, and Second Kings chapters I to VII] Reference
What was a large winded liberality then may be but niggardliness or narrowness now. From Wordnik.com. [Gala-days] Reference
The Moser family's silver wedding festivities did not err on the side of niggardliness. From Wordnik.com. [The Days Before Yesterday] Reference
Thus if a person has the vice of niggardliness, the practice of liberality is not sufficient to cure him. From Wordnik.com. [A History of Mediaeval Jewish Philosophy] Reference
But it was argued that this seeming niggardliness might injure His Majesty's popularity, never quite secure. From Wordnik.com. [From a Cornish Window A New Edition] Reference
Close-fisted niggardliness displayed itself in his every feature and warred against this unnatural outbreak. From Wordnik.com. [Debts of Honor] Reference
Prosperity often leads men to niggardliness in charitable gifts; but if it does the same for a woman, it is doubly cursed. From Wordnik.com. [Expositions of Holy Scripture Second Kings Chapters VIII to End and Chronicles, Ezra, and Nehemiah. Esther, Job, Proverbs, and Ecclesiastes] Reference
Thus it is comparatively safe to indulge in extravagance as a cure for niggardliness; the reverse process must be used with caution. From Wordnik.com. [A History of Mediaeval Jewish Philosophy] Reference
Eugenie loved her cousin and combated her father's niggardliness, which looked after his own interests to the neglect of his brother. From Wordnik.com. [Repertory of the Comedie Humaine Part 1] Reference
There was indeed an abundance of candles in the vessel; nevertheless, it was my business to husband them with the utmost niggardliness. From Wordnik.com. [The Frozen Pirate] Reference
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