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niggardliness


  2  definitions  found 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Niggardliness  \Nig"gard*li*ness\,  n. 
  The  quality  or  state  of  being  niggard;  meanness  in  giving  or 
  spending;  parsimony;  stinginess. 
 
  Niggardliness  is  not  good  husbandry.  --Addison. 
 
  From  WordNet  r  1.6  [wn]: 
 
  niggardliness 
  n  :  extreme  stinginess  [syn:  {meanness},  {minginess},  {niggardness}, 
  {parsimony},  {parsimoniousness},  {tightness},  {tightfistedness}, 
  {closeness}] 




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