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Meanings of niggard in English

Portuguese
sovina

A selfish person who is unwilling to give or spend.

sovina

A person who is stingy and miserly.

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Examples for "miser"
Examples for "miser"
1
Our tyrant is not the satyr or the torturer; but the miser.
A Miscellany of Men
2
The kangaroo and the miser carry all they love in a pouch.
Wise or Otherwise
3
The miser has no friends; but the spendthrift has generally too many.
Pebbles on the shore [by] Alpha of the plough
4
The round coins in the miser's stocking were safe in some sense.
A Miscellany of Men
5
Then the cheerful old miser put a nickel in my blistered hand.
The University of Hard Knocks
1
Of course, I'm a cheapskate compared with someone like Bob Harris.
Reuters
2
Then pray for a cheapskate judge and a long-shot verdict.
The capitol game
3
He picked me up at the two-dollar poker machines, so you know he's no cheapskate.
Four to score
4
Maybe it's coded with a cheapskate-detecting algorithm that will mess up my order next time.
Wired
5
You can hear everything in this cheapskate apartment.
Four to score
1
Grimshaw would curl his lip in a sneer and mutter: The cheap skate.
Michael, Brother of Jerry
2
I'd not waste breath teaching a whiner or a cheap skate.
Susan Lenox: Her Fall and Rise
3
She's a good, decent, affectionate girl, and Dave's a cheap skate, all right.
Main Street
4
You're nothing but a cheap skate, a tin-horn gambler, run down at the heels.
A Texas Ranger
5
You're a cheap skate trying to put up a front!
Broken to the Plow / A Novel
Usage of niggard in English
1
Be doubly careful of those to whom nature has been a niggard.
Autumn Leaves: Original Pieces in Prose and Verse
2
Miss Grandon might be queer and unsocial, but she was no niggard.
Floyd Grandon's Honor
3
She was a niggard in things which did not concern herself.
The Hawk of Egypt
4
But money is distributed with a niggard hand, and only once a year.
The English Governess at the Siamese Court / Being Recollections...
5
Praise or blame of its contriver, shown a niggard or profuse
Browning as a Philosophical and Religious Teacher
6
I fear lest we seem churlish and niggard in his eyes.
Sir Nigel
7
Are they so precious that I, like a disgusting niggard, should spare them?
Henry VIII and His Court: A Historical Novel
8
We can plainly see why nature is prodigal in variety, though niggard in innovation.
On the Origin of Species By Means of Natural Selection / Or, the...
9
Pixie was no niggard in sympathy, but for the moment she had other views.
The Love Affairs of Pixie
10
The greatest niggard on the street would pay two pins for such a sight.
There's Pippins and Cheese to Come
11
Those who when they spend are neither lavish nor niggard, but keep the mean:-
The Koran (Al-Qur'an)
12
It is a niggard's gift that costs the giver nothing.
A Dance with Dragons
13
For once, fortune hath not been a niggard with me.
The Bravo: A Tale
14
Napoleon was prodigal of promises, but niggard of their fulfilment.
The Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia, Volume 1 of 28
15
Oh, he was no niggard of his crowns, our Emperor!
The Wandering Jew — Volume 01
16
We can, in short, see why nature is prodigal in variety, though niggard in innovation.
The Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection / Or, the Pr...
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