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Synonyms of niggardliness in English:

niggardliness


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noun

1‘he condemned the Government's niggardliness about funding’

SYNONYMS

meanness, miserliness, parsimony, parsimoniousness, close-fistedness, penny-pinching, cheese-paring, penury, illiberality

informal stinginess, tight-fistedness, tightness, minginess

North American cheapness

archaic nearness

ANTONYMS

generosity

2‘he was disappointed at the niggardliness of his reward’

SYNONYMS

meagreness, inadequacy, scantiness, paltriness, limitedness, restrictedness, insufficiency, sparseness, spareness, deficiency, shortness, slightness, skimpiness, leanness, poorness, poverty, pitifulness, puniness, beggarliness

informal measliness

rare exiguity

ANTONYMS

lavishness, abundance