A person who is stingy and miserly.
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Examples for "niggard "
Examples for "niggard "
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
1 Of course, I'm a cheapskate compared with someone like Bob Harris.
2 Then pray for a cheapskate judge and a long-shot verdict.
3 He picked me up at the two-dollar poker machines, so you know he's no cheapskate .
4 Maybe it's coded with a cheapskate - detecting algorithm that will mess up my order next time.
5 You can hear everything in this cheapskate apartment.
1 Grimshaw would curl his lip in a sneer and mutter: The cheap skate .
2 I'd not waste breath teaching a whiner or a cheap skate .
3 She's a good, decent, affectionate girl, and Dave's a cheap skate , all right.
4 You're nothing but a cheap skate , a tin-horn gambler, run down at the heels.
5 You're a cheap skate trying to put up a front!
1 Our tyrant is not the satyr or the torturer; but the miser .
2 The kangaroo and the miser carry all they love in a pouch.
3 The miser has no friends; but the spendthrift has generally too many.
4 The round coins in the miser 's stocking were safe in some sense.
5 Then the cheerful old miser put a nickel in my blistered hand.
6 Misery is indeed the lot, if not the vice, of the miser .
7 He was not a curmudgeon with his money; he was no miser .
8 Trevethick, although a close-fisted fellow, was no miser in the vulgar sense.
9 And keeping the courtship close, too, for fear of the old miser .
10 He says it's about this miser who thinks about nothing but money.
11 We must be haunted by the spirit of some burglar or miser .
12 I call over your idea, as a miser counts over his treasure.
13 A few minutes more brought him in sight of the miser 's cottage.
14 The file showed that Alexander, a confirmed hypochondriac, was also a miser .
15 I imagined her counting over her grievances like a miser for years.
16 I know nothing whatever of them, faintly replied the startled old miser .
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