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Significats de niggardly en anglès

Petty or reluctant in giving or spending.

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Examples for "grudging"
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You can come in for a bit.' A grudging invitation at best.
Book of lost threads
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He has the grudging respect of every faction in the National Assembly.
The League of the Scarlet Pimpernel
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Queer youth don't have even that grudging level of mainstream acceptance, yet.
Wired
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But the response of the political establishment has been slow and grudging.
The Irish Times
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As apologies went it settled somewhere on the wrong side of grudging.
Lockdown
Ús de niggardly en anglès
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A niggardly purse in the pocket becomes a thorn in the side.
Levels of Living / Essays on Everyday Ideals
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The Creator does not administer the universe on so niggardly a plan.
Miss Ludington's Sister
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And further, son of Jahdai, be niggardly in nothing concerning our Lael.
The Prince of India; Or, Why Constantinople Fell — Volume 01
4
The italics emphasize our own feeling with regard to this niggardly arrangement.
Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 156, March 12, 1919
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Profuse to many unworthy applicants, the Ministers were niggardly to him alone.
Critical and Historical Essays — Volume 1
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Expenditures were both more wasteful and more niggardly than they are today.
The Age of the Reformation
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The Queen declined, however, committing herself beyond this niggardly and inadmissible offer.
The Rise of the Dutch Republic — Volume 22: 1574-76
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His worthlessness, too, furnishes an excuse for your niggardly allowance to me.
Prince Eugene and His Times
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And when the radiant air is all one's own, why be niggardly?
Tropic Days
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This niggardly approach is especially evident in its treatment of asylum-seekers.
The Irish Times
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On the other hand do not be mean and niggardly in your gifts.
A Little Book for Christmas
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No ordinance of the constitution is made in a niggardly spirit.
North America — Volume 2
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There is no harm in supplementing the niggardly gifts of nature.
The Chink in the Armour
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Fate has been niggardly; I have not even one little bug.
An Australian in China / Being the Narrative of a Quiet Journey ...
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And there is always this redeeming possibility in a niggardly uncle.
The Complete Writings of Charles Dudley Warner — Volume 1
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Yet surely we need not be so niggardly in this matter.
Masterpieces of American Wit and Humor
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