niggardly

niggardly

1. saita, kitsas

Liittyvät sanat: close-fisted, tight-fisted, tight-arsed

Synonyymisanakirja

niggardly

saita, itara, kitsas, nuuka, vastahakoinen, pihistelevä.

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niggardly rimmaa näiden kanssa:

hely, viljely, osa-aikaviljely, kuokkaviljely, lavaviljely, parvekeviljely, kasvihuoneviljely, koeviljely, kateviljely, kotitarveviljely...

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Englannin sanakirja

niggardly (englanti > suomi)

1. pihi, nuuka, saita, itara

niggardly englanniksi

1. puhekieltä withholding Withholding for the sake of meanness; stingy, miserly.

2. Bishop Hall

Where the owner of the house will be bountiful, it is not for the steward to be niggardly.

3. 1919, w:William Somerset Maugham|W. Somerset Maugham, w:The Moon and Sixpence|The Moon and Sixpence, s:The Moon and Sixpence/Chapter XLVII|chapter 47

They were not niggardly, these tramps, and he who had money did not hesitate to share it among the rest.

4. 1958, w:John Kenneth Galbraith|John Kenneth Galbraith, The Affluent Society (1998 edition), ISBN 9780395925003, http://books.google.ca/books?id=IfH010hvIqcC&printsec=frontcover&source=gbs_ge_summary_r&cad=0v=onepage&q=niggardly&f=false p. 186:

This manifests itself in an implacable tendency to provide an opulent supply of some things and a niggardly yield of others.

5. puhekieltä In a parsimonious way; sparingly, stingily.

6. (RQ:RBrtn AntmyMlncl), New York 2001, p.105:

because many families are compelled to live niggardly, exhaust and undone by great dowers, none shall be given at all, or very little ….

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