niggardly
ungenerous and stingy with money or resources
Niggardly in a sentence
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His niggardly tips left the waitstaff openly resentful.
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Although the senator's memoir was marketed as a frank reckoning with his failures, reviewers found it relentlessly blank, dwelling on grievances and recasting every setback as the fault of his adversaries.
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