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niggardly
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synonyms: parsimony, paucity, tenuity, exiguous, modicity, hide-bound ???
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Definition:stingy, scanty; ungenerously smallIt's best to generally avoid using the word as some find it offensive
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he was idle, proud, niggardly, reserved, and suspicious.
Charles Dickens. Great Expectations (1861)
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The gentlewoman whether it were for niceness, or for niggardness of courtesy, gave him such a cold welcome, that he repented that he was come.
John Lyly. Euphues: The Anatomy of Wit (1578)
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Queen: Did he receive you well?
Rosencrantz: Most like a gentleman.
Guildenstern: But with much forcing of his disposition.
Rosencrantz: Niggard of question; but, of our demands,Most free in his reply.
Queen: Did you assay him? To any pastime?
William Shakespeare. Hamlet
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Notwithstanding this niggardly spirit, however, the gentleman showed his consideration for me in all other respects, and indeed treated me with the greatest civility.
Edgar Allan Poe. The Works of Edgar Allan Poe — Volume 4: How to Write a Blackwood Article (1838)
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He wears the same suit for ten years, and the new clothes, which he usually buys at a Jewish shop, look as shabby and crumpled on him as his old ones; he sees patients and dines and pays visits all in the same coat; but this is not due to niggardliness, but to complete carelessness about his appearance.
Anton Chekhov. The Horse-Stealers and Other Stories
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The transmission of speech is an old story; the transmission of images by means of sensitive mirrors connected by wires is a thing but of yesterday. A valuable invention indeed, and Mr. Smith this morning was not niggard of blessings for the inventor, when by its aid he was able distinctly to see his wife notwithstanding the distance that separated
Verne, Jules; Verne, Michel. In the Year 2889
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