Crossword-Solution: NIGGARD
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Niggard | n. | A person meanly close and covetous; one who spends grudgingly; a stingy, parsimonous fellow; a miser. |
| Niggard | a. | Like a niggard; meanly covetous or parsimonious; niggardly; miserly; stingy. |
| Niggard | v. t. & i. | To act the niggard toward; to be niggardly. |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| NIGGARD | anagram | GRADING |
We have 19 clues for the answer “NIGGARD”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Mean type | 1 answer |
| Parsimonious person | 2 answers |
| ECONOMISING person | 3 answers |
| Tight-fisted one | 3 answers |
| SKIMPY person | 3 answers |
| Stingy one | 4 answers |
| stingy person | 8 answers |
| Cheapskate | 11 answers |
| BE STINGY | 12 answers |
| Skinflint | 13 answers |
| Scrooge | 13 answers |
| miser | 14 answers |
| BE STINGY WITH | 14 answers |
| miserly person | 15 answers |
| Tightwad | 17 answers |
| Churl | 32 answers |
| Curmudgeon | 45 answers |
| INFERIOR person | 49 answers |
| Little ___. | 100 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
ATEER
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with NIGGARD (5)
The guest becomes clamorous for supper, observing, “For certainly, as I you say, I ne had never so sorry a day, That I ne had a merry night.” But this indication of his taste for good cheer, joined to the annunciation of his being a follower of the Court, who had lost himself at the great hunting-match, cannot induce the niggard Hermit to produce better fare than bread and cheese, for which his guest showed little appetite; and “thin drink,” which was even less acceptable.
The evening sky was sinister and cold; The willows shivered, wanly lay the snow; The uncommiserating land, so old, So worn, so grey, so niggard in its woe, Peered through its ragged shroud.
Here in the valley there is no cessation of waters even in the season when the niggard frost gives them scant leave to run.
LVII Nor yet more comfort brought the gloomy night, In her thick shades was burning heat uprolled, Her sable mantle was embroidered bright With blazing stars and gliding fires for gold, Nor to refresh, sad earth, thy thirsty sprite, The niggard moon let fall her May dews cold, And dried up the vital moisture was, In trees, in plants, in herbs, in flowers, in grass.
Amost in ev’ry thing He did the like, ’tis worth our noticing: Sparing, yet not a niggard; liberal, And yet not lavish or a prodigal, As knowing when to spend and when to spare; And that’s a lesson which not many are Acquainted with.
Quotes with NIGGARD (3)
I wish I had only offered youa sovereign instead of ten pounds. Give me back nine pounds, Jane; I’ve a use for it.''And so have I, sir,' I returned, putting my hands and my purse behind me. 'I could not spare the money on any account.''Little niggard!' said he, 'refusing me a pecuniary request! Give me five pounds, Jane.''Not five shillings, sir; nor five pence.''Just let me look at the cash.''No, sir; you are not to be trusted.
Tis open before your eyes," returned the scout; "and he who knows it is not a niggard of its use. I have heard it said that there are men who read in books to convince themselves there is a God. I know not but man may deform his works in the settlement, as to leave that which is so clear in the wilderness a matter of doubt among traders and priests. If any such there be, and he will follow me from sun to sun, through the windings of the forest, he shall see enough to teach hi…
His feet went banging down some stairs. He closed his eyes. They went through cinders and dirt, his heels gathering small windrows of trash. A dim world receded above his upturned toes, shapes of skewed shacks erupted bluely in the niggard lamplight. The rusting carcass of an automobile passed slowly on his right. Dim scenes pooling in the summer night, wan ink wash of junks tilting against a paper sky, rorschach boatmen poling mutely over a mooncobbled sea. He lay with his h…