niggardliness

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niggardliness

noun niggardlinesses

  1. uncountable, usually The state of being niggardly; parsimony. Whatever obscurity or incongruity attaches to the statements I have quoted, those who made them are manifestly at one as to the two cardinal facts, that Cavendish was, for the first forty years of his life, a poor man, and for the last thirty-nine an unusually wealthy one. No one seems able to assig

    Similar: niggardness, niggardship, niggardy, niggardry, niggardise

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@misc{niggardliness_2026,
  title = {niggardliness},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/niggardliness},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}