niggardly

How To Use niggardly In A Sentence

• 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.
• 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
• 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.
• He lives by his wits, playing tricks on a niggardly old victualler and other gullible occupants of the camp, and gets whipped for his pains.
• He had a broad and generous, rather than a cramped and niggardly, view of the law and its functions.
• Given the accelerating pace of cultural change in this last period this seems a niggardly apportionment.