The Collaborative International Dictionary
Niggardliness \Nig"gard*li*ness\ (n[i^]g"g[~e]rd*l[i^]*n[e^]s), n. The quality or state of being niggard; meanness in giving or spending; parsimony; stinginess.
Niggardliness is not good husbandry.
--Addison.
Wiktionary
n. The state of being niggardly.
WordNet
n. extreme stinginess [syn: meanness, minginess, niggardness, parsimony, parsimoniousness, tightness, tightfistedness, closeness]
Usage examples of "niggardliness".
He not only added to his riches by the most abject niggardliness in his mode of life, thereby adding his pension to his capital, but by speculation in Saxon bonds, for which, in the beginning, he employed the aid of the Jew Hirsch.
These were courtesies, yes, but they cost nothing and their absence bespoke a certain niggardliness of hospitality.
A foil for his virtues is provided by the character of Byron, whose nauseous affectations, animal coarseness, niggardliness, except where his own personal comfort was involved, and deep-seated snobbishness, makes Shelley into an angel of light.
Of set purpose, and not through mere niggardliness, the state allowed the young man or woman who chose to avoid all state-organized professions only a bare minimum of help, whether his field of adventure was art or science or philosophy.
John, with his innate niggardliness, at once seized this opportunity for disembarrassing himself of an importunate beggar by saddling the county with him.
It is the fashion to decry the niggardliness of the American government on the subject of money, as compared with those of this hemisphere.
As though to make amends for a niggardliness of the physical, Providence had conferred upon our legal one a prodigious head.
He reproached the Priest-Kings with their niggardliness, and what he regarded as their breach of faith.