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niggardliness
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun niggardliness has 1 sense
- niggardliness(n = noun.attribute) closeness, meanness, minginess, niggardness, parsimoniousness, parsimony, tightfistedness, tightness - extreme stinginess; Array is a kind of stinginess
has particulars: littleness, pettiness, smallness, miserliness
Derived form adjective niggardly1
CIDE DICTIONARY
niggardliness, n.
The quality or state of being niggard; meanness in giving or spending; parsimony; stinginess. [1913 Webster]
"Niggardliness is not good husbandry."
[1913 Webster]
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