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HOME | Definition of niggardliness (NIGGARDLINESS, Niggardliness)

    Niggardliness \Nig"gard*li*ness\ (n[i^]g"g[~e]rd*l[i^]*n[e^]s),
    n.
    The quality or state of being niggard; meanness in giving or
    spending; parsimony; stinginess.
    [1913 Webster]

    Niggardliness is not good husbandry. --Addison.
    [1913 Webster]

    The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48


    niggardliness
    n : extreme stinginess [syn: meanness, minginess, niggardness,
    parsimony, parsimoniousness, tightness, tightfistedness,
    closeness]

    WordNet (r) 2.0


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