Sentence example with the word 'niggardliness'

niggardliness

Definition n. extreme stinginess

Last update: August 26, 2015


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Criminally neglected by the diet, which from sheer niggardliness turned a deaf ear to all his requests for reinforcements and for supplies and money to pay his soldiers, Chodkiewicz nevertheless more than held his own against the Swedes.   [Please select]

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You have also heard much of his niggardliness in money transactions.   [Please select]

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She was capable of refusal, but not of half-measures or of niggardliness.   [Please select]

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But he interpreted thrift not as a trait of niggardliness, but as Theodore Roosevelt interpreted it: common sense applied to spending.   [Please select]

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But there are other parts of Turner's conduct of which you have never heard; and which, if truly reported, would set his niggardliness in a very different light.   [Please select]

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The oncoming luminary was a singular-looking woman who may have been considerably less so in the privacy of her dressing-room; she had evidently expended much thought upon supplementing the niggardliness of Nature.   [Please select]

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