Crossword-Solution: NIGGARDLY
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Niggardly | a. | Meanly covetous or avarcious in dealing with others; stingy; niggard. |
| Niggardly | adv. | In a niggard manner. |
We have 9 clues for the answer “NIGGARDLY”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Meagre and given grudgingly | 1 answer |
| Pinchpenny | 3 answers |
| Parsimonious | 42 answers |
| avaricious | 44 answers |
| Stingy | 51 answers |
| frugal | 60 answers |
| miserly | 64 answers |
| Tight | 71 answers |
| Mean | 110 answers |
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An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the
discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
Hint 2 anagram
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Sentences with NIGGARDLY (5)
Then, he thought, how soon he’d turn his back upon the old schoolhouse; snap his fingers in the face of Hans Van Ripper, and every other niggardly patron, and kick any itinerant pedagogue out of doors that should dare to call him comrade! Old Baltus Van Tassel moved about among his guests with a face dilated with content and good humor, round and jolly as the harvest moon.
Sherlock Holmes, you will have no reason to complain of niggardly treatment.” My friend rubbed his thin hands together with an appearance of avidity which was a surprise to me, who knew his frugal tastes.
They came from Exeter, well provided with admiration for the use of Sir John Middleton, his family, and all his relations, and no niggardly proportion was now dealt out to his fair cousins, whom they declared to be the most beautiful, elegant, accomplished, and agreeable girls they had ever beheld, and with whom they were particularly anxious to be better acquainted.
McTeague, have you got any tea? Let's make a cup of tea over the stove.” “No, no,” cried Trina, with niggardly apprehension; “no, I haven't got a bit of tea.” Trina's stinginess had increased to such an extent that it had gone beyond the mere hoarding of money.
They were not niggardly, these tramps, and he who had money did not hesitate to share it among the rest.
Quotes with NIGGARDLY (3)
As a result of these news stories, millions of people must have become aware of "niggardly," who otherwise would never have heard it, let alone thought to use it. If this is right, and the word has a new currency, it is probably not the currency I would wish for. The word's new lease of life is probably among manufacturers and retailers of sophomoric humor. I bet that even as I write, some adolescent boys, in the stairwell of some high school somewhere in America, are accusin…
It is foolish to be lavish in words and niggardly in truth.
Even if, by some especially unfortunate fate or by the niggardly provision of stepmotherly nature, [the good will] should be wholly lacking in the power to accomplish its purpose; if with the greatest effort it should yet achieve nothing, and only the good will should remain (not, to be sure, as a mere wish but as the summoning of all the means in our power), yet would it, like a jewel, still shine by its own light as something which has its full value in itself.