Definizione monolingua

niggardly

niggardly (comparative more niggardly, superlative most niggardly)

1. (now rare) Withholding for the sake of meanness; stingy, miserly.
   • 1958, John Kenneth Galbraith, The Affluent Society (1998 edition), ISBN 9780395925003, p. 186:

     This manifests itself in an implacable tendency to provide an opulent supply of some things and a niggardly yield of others.

niggardly (comparative more niggardly, superlative most niggardly)

1. (now rare) In a parsimonious way; sparingly, stingily.
   • 1621, Robert Burton, The Anatomy of Melancholy, New York 2001, p. 105:

     because many families are compelled to live niggardly, exhaust and undone by great dowers, none shall be given at all, or very little [...].

Definizione dizionario niggardly

taccagno

Altri significati:

(now rare) In a parsimonious way; sparingly, stingily.

(now rare) Withholding for the sake of meanness; stingy, miserly.