niggard
noun
an excessively parsimonious, miserly, or stingy person.
niggards
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pluralof niggard.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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They are either not so rich in love as I am, or they are niggards where I am lavish.
From The Letters of Robert Burns by Robert Burns
The authorities of the London and Suburban Bank were no niggards.
From The Man Upstairs and Other Stories by P. G. (Pelham Grenville) Wodehouse
Heber's generosity has been nobly praised by Scott, who contrasts the hard-heartedness of other bibliophiles, those "gripple niggards" who preferred holding on to their treasures, with his friend's careless liberality.
From Americans and Others by Agnes Repplier
Nature—it seems—when she meant us for earth Spent so much of her treasure in the birth As ever after niggards her, and she, Thus stor'd within, beggars us outwardly.
From Poems of Henry Vaughan, Silurist, Volume II by E. K. (Edmund Kerchever) Chambers
Don't be niggards in this; it cheers the Doctor's heart, and it will lighten yours.
From Health Five Lay Sermons to Working-People by John Brown
