Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Niggardly; stingy; mean.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective obsolete Niggardly.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective obsolete
niggardly
Etymologies
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See niggard.
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Examples
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Horses, so niggish was that Tyrant of his provender, that he nourished them with the bodies of men.
The Golden Asse Lucius Apuleius
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For there nothing is distributed after a niggish sort, neither there is any poor man or beggar.
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Histories how the King of Thrace would throw his miserable ghests to be torne in peeces and devoured of his wild Horses, so niggish was that
The Golden Asse 1566
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