A selfish person who is unwilling to give or spend.
A person who is stingy and miserly.
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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