English-Thai Dictionary
niggardliness
N ความ ขี้เหนียว kwam-ke-nio
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
NIGGARDLINESS
n.Mean covetousness; sordid parsimony; extreme avarice manifested in sparing expense. Niggardliness is not good husbandry.
Webster's 1913 Dictionary
NIGGARDLINESS
NIGGARDLINESS Nig "gard *li *ness, n.
Defn: The quality or state of being niggard; meanness in giving or spending; parsimony; stinginess. Niggardliness is not good husbandry. Addison.
Oxford Thesaurus
niggardliness
niggardliness noun 1 he condemned the Government's niggardliness about funding: meanness, miserliness, parsimony, parsimoniousness, close-fistedness, penny-pinching, cheese-paring, penury, illiberality; informal stinginess, tight-fistedness, tightness, minginess; N. Amer. cheapness; archaic nearness. ANTONYMS generosity. 2 he was disappointed at the niggardliness of his reward: meagreness, inadequacy, scantiness, paltriness, limitedness, restrictedness, insufficiency, sparseness, spareness, deficiency, shortness, slightness, skimpiness, leanness, poorness, poverty, pitifulness, puniness, beggarliness; informal measliness; rare exiguity. ANTONYMS lavishness, abundance.
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