niggardly

Estimated CEFR level: C2 — Proficiency

Estimated from word frequency; not an official CEFR classification.

Definition

From niggard + -ly (adjectival suffix).

He was a miserable miser who made his wife so wretched by his niggardly ways that she was a ready prey for any adventurer. — The case-book of Sherlock Holmes, Arthur Conan Doyle
He had yet to learn that the storm which brought about a good deal of the preceding twenty-four hours' excitement had not acted in any niggardly fashion. — The Silent Barrier, Louis Tracy
Lucian. None whatever; yet surely you yourself may, when even your babes and sucklings are endowed with abilities incomparably greater than our niggardly old gods have bestowed on the very best of us. — Imaginary Conversations and Poems: A Selection, Walter Savage Landor

grudging, scrimy

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