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Niggardliness [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. Mean covetousness; sordid parsimony; extreme avarice manifested in sparing expense.

2. NIGGARDLINESS is not good husbandry.

Niggardliness [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

The quality or state of being niggard; meanness in giving or spending; parsimony; stinginess.