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miserly
English
Etymology
miser +? -ly, attested from the 1540s.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?ma?.z?(?).li/
Adjective
miserly (comparative more miserly, superlative most miserly)
- Like a miser; very covetous; cautious with money
- Synonyms: stingy; see also Thesaurus:stingy, Thesaurus:greedy
Translations
Further reading
- miserly in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- miserly in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
Anagrams
- Simerly, misrely
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niggardly
English
Etymology
niggard +? -ly
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /?n???dli/
- (US) IPA(key): /?n???dli/
Adjective
niggardly (comparative more niggardly, superlative most niggardly)
- Withholding for the sake of meanness; stingy, miserly.
- Synonyms: miserly, stingy; see also Thesaurus:stingy
- 1609, Joseph Hall, (paraphrasing Ambrose? in) "No Peace with Rome", in Josiah Pratt (editor), The Works of the Right Reverend Father in God, Joseph Hall, D. D., Vol. IX. Polemical Works, London, (1808), page 57:
- [W]here the owner of the house will be bountiful, it is not for the steward to be niggardly.
- 1919, W. Somerset Maugham, The Moon and Sixpence, chapter 47
- They were not niggardly, these tramps, and he who had money did not hesitate to share it among the rest.
- 1958, John Kenneth Galbraith, The Affluent Society (1998 edition), ?ISBN, p. 186:
- This manifests itself in an implacable tendency to provide an opulent supply of some things and a niggardly yield of others.
Usage notes
- This term may cause offence, especially in the US, as it is easily confused with niggerly, an adverbial form of the racial slur nigger. The two words are etymologically unrelated.
Translations
Adverb
niggardly (comparative more niggardly, superlative most niggardly)
- (now rare) In a parsimonious way; sparingly, stingily.
- , 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 […].
- , New York 2001, p.105:
Translations
Further reading
- Controversies about the word "niggardly" on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
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