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Meanings of
niggardliness
in English
Portuguese
parcimónia
Catalan
mesquinesa
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Extreme stinginess.
meanness
closeness
tightness
parsimony
stinginess
miserliness
penuriousness
costiveness
parsimoniousness
closefistedness
Portuguese
parcimónia
Usage of
niggardliness
in English
1
She was capable of refusal, but not of half-measures or of
niggardliness
.
2
We must, then, be grateful without
niggardliness
for the gift of his verse.
3
I was deciding between money and men, between
niggardliness
and romance.
4
Herdsmen and farmers depended for their livelihood on nature, her
niggardliness
or generosity.
5
There was no
niggardliness
in the trade the Vose folks made with Captain Mayo.
6
Eddie slumped down in his chair, muttering something about
niggardliness
.
7
The Moser family's silver wedding festivities did not err on the side of
niggardliness
.
8
What was a large winded liberality then may be but
niggardliness
or narrowness now.
9
Luxury at home and
niggardliness
in God's work make an ugly pair, but, alas!
10
This
niggardliness
compelled him to cross and recross streets.
11
Not to do so was callous ingratitude and tradesman's
niggardliness
on the part of Wittekind.
12
Disguise it with every artifice, a paucity of resource-orplain
niggardliness
-
betrayed
itself
at every meal.
13
No fashion, no vanity, no profuseness, and yet no
niggardliness
,
but is found among professors.
14
He has little to offer, but that little is seldom withheld, either through prudence or
niggardliness
.
15
By way of a crushing suggestion of
niggardliness
on their part I enclosed a stamped addressed envelope.
16
None of that
niggardliness
with their favors.
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niggardliness
Noun
Singular
Frequent collocations
absolute niggardliness
accuse of niggardliness
chaffer niggardliness
enjoin niggardliness
imply niggardliness
More collocations
Translations for
niggardliness
Portuguese
parcimónia
parcimônia
Catalan
mesquinesa
Niggardliness
through the time