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1. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
Lenten, Spartan, abstemious, ascetic, austere, bountiful, cheeseparing, chinchy, chintzy, close, closefisted, closefistedly, dwarfed, dwarfish, exiguous, frugal, grudging, illiberal, illiberally, impoverished, infrequent, jejune, lean, limited, little, meager, mean, meanly, mingy, miserly, narrow, niggard, paltry, parsimonious, penny-pinching, penurious, petty, piddling, pinchpenny, poor, puny, rare, scant, scanty, scarce, scattered, scrawny, scrimp, scrimping, scrimpy, seldom met with, seldom seen, shabbily, shabby, skimp, skimping, skimpy, slender, slight, slim, small, sordid, sordidly, spare, sparing, sparse, spotty, sprinkled, starvation, stingily, stingy, stinted, straitened, stunted, subsistence, thin, tight, tightfisted, tightfistedly, unchivalrous, ungenerous, ungenerously, unnourishing, unnutritious, watered, watery
Dictionary Results for niggardly:
1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006)
niggardly
    adj 1: petty or reluctant in giving or spending; "a niggardly
           tip" [syn: grudging, niggardly, scrimy]

2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Niggardly \Nig"gard*ly\, adv.
   In a niggard manner.
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3. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Niggardly \Nig"gard*ly\ (n[i^]g"g[~e]rd*l[y^]), a.
   Meanly covetous or avaricious in dealing with others; stingy;
   niggard.
   [1913 Webster]

         Where the owner of the house will be bountiful, it is
         not for the steward to be niggardly.     --Bp. Hall.
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   Syn: Avaricious; covetous; parsimonious; sparing; miserly;
        penurious; sordid; stingy. See Avaricious.
        [1913 Webster]

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