| 单词 | niggardliness |
| 释义 | niggardliness (once / 38752 pages) n WORD FAMILY niggardly: niggardliness+/niggard: niggardly, niggardness, niggards USAGE EXAMPLESThe detestable niggardliness of Nabal’s heart would not suffer him to part with anything which he could find an excuse for retaining. Blaikie, William Garden, The Expositor's Bible: The First Bo...(2012) For often niggardliness excuses itself under the name of frugality, and on the other hand extravagance conceals itself under the name of liberality. Ogg, Frederic Austin, A Source Book of Medi?val History—D...(2012) He could not risk an effective free advertisement by an exhibition of niggardliness on the part of the proprietors of the circus. Chapman, Allen, Ralph in the Switch Tower(2012) n extreme stinginess Syn|Hypo|Hyper closeness, meanness, minginess, niggardness, parsimoniousness, parsimony, tightfistedness, tightness littleness, pettiness, smallness lack of generosity in trifling matters miserlinesstotal lack of generosity with money stinginess a lack of generosity; a general unwillingness to part with money |
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