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Meanings of niggard in English
Synonyms
Examples for "scrooge"
Examples for "scrooge"
1
It is Scrooge;- aconvertedScrooge; and I, I suppose, am Tiny Tim.
2
Obviously, Disney already had their own ready-to-cook central character in Scrooge McDuck.
3
So what did his friend John French do for this seasonal Scrooge?
4
Scrooge knew the men, and looked towards the Spirit for an explanation.
5
Scrooge looked about him for the Ghost, and saw it no more.
1
My heart lurched with anger; the churl might have lowered his voice.
2
In that case I cannot be such a churl as to refuse.
3
I should be a churl if I did not tell you so.
4
But he is a mannerless churl, we will not think of him.
5
My kinswoman could have received no greater kindness at the churl's hands.
1
Would proper ink cost the old skinflint ninepence more per gallon, perhaps?
2
Because I know you, and know that you are a regular skinflint.
3
It was a skinflint document, and here are a couple of quotations:-
4
This old skinflint is opening his bosom and handing me a knife.
5
They do say you are a skinflint, yes, and a hard man.
Usage of niggard in English
1
Be doubly careful of those to whom nature has been a niggard.
2
Miss Grandon might be queer and unsocial, but she was no niggard.
3
She was a niggard in things which did not concern herself.
4
But money is distributed with a niggard hand, and only once a year.
5
Praise or blame of its contriver, shown a niggard or profuse
6
I fear lest we seem churlish and niggard in his eyes.
7
Are they so precious that I, like a disgusting niggard, should spare them?
8
We can plainly see why nature is prodigal in variety, though niggard in innovation.
9
Pixie was no niggard in sympathy, but for the moment she had other views.
10
The greatest niggard on the street would pay two pins for such a sight.
11
Those who when they spend are neither lavish nor niggard, but keep the mean:-
12
It is a niggard's gift that costs the giver nothing.
13
For once, fortune hath not been a niggard with me.
14
Napoleon was prodigal of promises, but niggard of their fulfilment.
15
Oh, he was no niggard of his crowns, our Emperor!
16
We can, in short, see why nature is prodigal in variety, though niggard in innovation.
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