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niggardly

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ungenerous and stingy with money or resources

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Niggardly in a sentence

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His niggardly tips left the waitstaff openly resentful.

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Niggardly (adjective) means ungenerous and stingy with money or resources
Here is niggardly used in an example sentence: "His niggardly tips left the waitstaff openly resentful."
Common synonyms for niggardly include miserly, parsimonious, tightfisted.
Antonyms of niggardly include generous, lavish, munificent.
Niggardly is a GRE-level vocabulary word worth knowing for the Verbal section.

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