niggardliness
61tightness — Synonyms and related words: Jim Crow, adhesiveness, alien, apartheid, avarice, bullheadedness, cheapness, chinchiness, chintziness, closefistedness, closeness, cohesiveness, color bar, confinement, consistency, crowdedness, division,… …
62GIRARD, STEPHEN — a philanthropist, born at Bordeaux; in early life followed the career of a seaman and rose to be captain of an American coast trader; in 1769 set up as a trader in Philadelphia, and in course of time establishing a bank, accumulated an immense …
63greed — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) n. greediness, desire, cupidity, avidity, avarice. See gluttony, parsimony. II (Roget s IV) n. Syn. greediness, avidity, selfishness, eagerness, avarice, voracity, excess, rapacity, gluttony, piggishness …
64economical — I (Roget s IV) modif. 1. [Careful of expenditures] Syn. thrifty, frugal, saving, sparing, prudent, careful, economizing, provident, niggardly, meager, miserly, stingy, mean, close, shabby, avaricious, penurious, chary, watchful, circumspect,… …
65frugality — I (Roget s IV) n. Syn. economy, thrift, carefulness, conservation, husbandry, management, prudence, saving, parsimony, parsimoniousness, miserliness, scrimping, stinginess, niggardliness, penuriousness, sparingness, penny pinching, cheapness*,… …
66meanness — I (Roget s IV) n. 1. [The quality of being mean] Syn. smallmindedness, baseness, lowness, pettiness, wickedness, debasement, degradation, abjection, shamelessness, infamy, degeneracy, blackguardism, knavishness, unscrupulousness, stinginess,… …
67Silhouette — Etienne de Silhouette (1709 1767), an author and politician, became French controller general of finances in the mid eighteenth century through the influence of Madame de Pompadour. Silhouette instituted strict reforms to help the failing… …
68niggardly — (adj.) 1560s, from NIGGARD (Cf. niggard) + LY (Cf. ly) (1). It was while giving a speech in Washington, to a very international audience, about the British theft of the Elgin marbles from the Parthenon. I described the attitude of the current… …
69niggardly — adjective ungenerous; mean. ↘meagre and given grudgingly. adverb archaic in a mean or meagre manner. Derivatives niggardliness noun …
70churlishness — n. 1. Rudeness, incivility, roughness, brutishness. 2. Crabbedness, moroseness, sullenness, tartness, acrimony, acerbity, asperity, harshness, bitterness, ill temper. 3. Niggardliness, stinginess, penuriousness, closeness, meanness, miserliness,… …