Sentence example with the word 'niggard'

niggard

cheapskate, churl, curmudgeon, mean, miser, muckworm, penny pincher, penurious, pinchgut, save-all, shabby, sordid, tight

Definition n. a selfish person who is unwilling to give or spend

Last update: September 5, 2015


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He was not a niggard, however, in his expenditure.   [noun]

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Napoleon was prodigal of promises, but niggard of their fulfilment.   [adjective]

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"'Tis open before your eyes," returned the scout; "and he who owns it is not a niggard of its use."'   [Please select]

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"The gardener is a niggard with his flowers," she said with a coaxing smile.   [Please select]

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Its appropriation was impossibly meager, even with the niggard's increase just wrung from the legislature.   [Please select]

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There were many damaged heads, for the cuirassiers had not been niggard with their sabers.   [Please select]

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I thought my friends were rich men, and I was never a niggard.   [Please select]

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What could the life have been among these rugged and inhospitable Highlands, on this niggard and reluctant soil.   [Please select]

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"These six--the peevish, the niggard, the dissatisfied, the passionate, the suspicious, and those who live upon others' means--are forever unhappy."   [Please select]

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Morning and evening we were brought a niggard allowance of bread and water; but the man who carried it bore no light, and may not even have observed their absence.   [Please select]

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Or ye, who count the niggard cost In time and coin and gear Of succoring the under-dog, How often have ye seen a hog, Establishing his glutton boast, Survive a famine year.   [Please select]

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