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单词 niggard
例句 niggardadjective

giving or sharing as little as possiblein Shakespeare's sonnet, the narrator begs his love to give him more praise "than niggard truth would willingly impart"

cheap, chintzy, close, closefisted, mean, mingy, miserly, niggardly, parsimonious, penny-pinching, penurious, pinching, pinchpenny, spare, sparing, stingy, stinting, tight, tightfisted, uncharitable, ungenerous

careful, chary, conserving, economical, economizing, frugal, saving, scrimping, skimping, thriftyacquisitive, avaricious, avid, coveting, covetous, desirous, grasping, greedy, hoggish, itchy, mercenary, rapacious, selfish, shabby, small, sordidbegrudging, envious, grudging, resentfulinhospitable

bounteous, bountiful, charitable, freehanded, generous, liberal, munificent, openhanded, unsparing, unstinting

altruistic, selfless, unselfishextravagant, free, handsome, lavish, overgenerous, profusebeneficent, benevolent, hospitable, humanitarian, philanthropic(also philanthropical)compassionate, good-hearted, greathearted, kindly, magnanimous, openheartedthriftless, unthriftydissipating, frittering, prodigal, profligate, spendthrift, splurging, squandering, wasteful, wasting

niggardnoun

a mean grasping person who is usually stingy with moneysuch a niggard that he refused to hand out candy at Halloween, saying it would cost too much money

cheapskate, churl, hunks, miser, penny-pincher, piker, scrooge, skinflint, tightwad

hoarder, pack rat, saver

prodigal, profligate, spender, spendthrift, squanderer, waster, wastrel

in the 14th century

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