niggard

How To Use niggard In A Sentence

• It is true: but liberality baulkes, and feares covetousnesse and niggardize, more a great deale then prodigallity; so does zeale lukewarmnes and coldnesse, more then too much heate and forwardnesse; the defect is more opposite and dangerous to some vertues, then the excesse. A Coal From The Altar, To Kindle The Holy Fire of Zeale In a Sermon Preached at a Generall Visitation at Ipswich
• Officials say the EU, which is supposed to provide most of the food needs, is being particularly niggardly.
• Faced by those constraints, the soldiers of the Royal Anglians face an uphill task and the official three-year time limit is already looking decidedly niggardly.
• Congress has ever been niggardly when little or no evidence of electoral sentiment is presented to justify more generous appropriations.
• So a relatively high price assures that the place will not be overrun by beer drinking mobs and niggards like other places.
• Many of those who tend to be greedy, envious, and niggardly anyway fall prey to sin.
• [261] _Ceteris arte modum statuisse_ still depends upon _comperior_, 'I learn (that is, we are informed) that for the rest (of the wants) he fixed the measure in a close (niggardly) manner;' for _arte_ is the adverb of _artus_, which is frequently, though not correctly, written C. Sallusti Crispi De Bello Catilinario Et Jugurthino
• Ostentation, mediocrity, social conventions, members of the church, doctors, niggards and men of letters, among others, were objects of his strict observation and his corrosive critics.
• If the fee which Germanicus offers is niggardly, which I doubt, then I shall see you are paid what you are worth.
• Having spent so much time on the concerto to slight the sonata may seem niggardly but I must confess that I really don't appreciate the piece enough to discuss this recording.