3. Most free of question , but to our demands niggard in his reply.
Word of the Day: Catachrestical
1. A miser; a person meanly close and covetous; a sordid wretch who saves every cent, or spends grudgingly.
3. Be niggards of advice on no pretense.
A person meanly close and covetous; one who spends grudgingly; a stingy, parsimonous fellow; a miser.
To act the niggard toward; to be niggardly.
Niggardliness. [Not in use.]
Somewhat niggard.
2. NIGGARDLINESS is not good husbandry.
Niggardliness. [Not used.]
Niggardliness. [Not used.]
Parsimony Roget’s Thesaurus §819
N. parsimony, parcity|, parsimoniousness, stinginess, stint, illiberality, tenacity, avarice, greed, miser, niggard, churl, screw, skinflint, crib, codger, muckworm, scrimp, lickpenny, hunks, curmudgeon, harpagon, harpy, extortioner, jew, usurer, hessian, pinch fist, pinch penny
V. be parsimonious, grudge, begrudge, stint, pinch, gripe, screw, dole out, hold back, withhold, starve, famish, live upon nothing, skin a flint, drive a bargain, drive a hard bargain, cheapen, beat down, stop one hole in a sieve, have an itching palm, grasp, grab
Adj. parsimonious, penurious, stingy, miserly, mean, shabby, peddling, scrubby, penny wise, near, niggardly, close, fast handed, close handed, strait handed, close fisted, hard fisted, tight fisted, tight, sparing, chary, grudging, griping, illiberal, ungenerous, churlish, hidebound, sordid, mercenary, venal, covetous, usurious, avaricious, greedy, extortionate, rapacious
Adv. with a sparing hand
Phr. desunt inopioe multa avaritiae omnia, "hoards after hoards his rising raptures fill", "the unsunn'd heaps of miser's treasures", words relating to the sentiment and moral powers
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Riches are not comely for a niggard: and what should an envious man do with money?
A wicked eye envieth his bread, and he is a niggard at his table.
But against him that is a niggard of his meat the whole city shall murmur; and the testimonies of his niggardness shall not be doubted of.