Definition for Niggardliness:

• Mean covetousness; stinginess; miserliness.

Synonyms for Niggardliness:

• n.

  •avarice (noun)
  • penny- pinching,
  • rapacity,
  • avidity,
  • parsimony,
  • penuriousness,
  • covetousness,
  • thrift,
  • cupidity,
  • frugality.
  •closeness (noun)
  • closeness.
  •economy (noun)
  • rollback,
  • retrenchment,
  • recession,
  • reduction,
  • carefulness,
  • sparingness,
  • providence,
  • regulation,
  • direction,
  • supervision,
  • austerity,
  • Scrimping,
  • prudence,
  • rollbacks,
  • meanness,
  • layoff,
  • deduction,
  • discretion,
  • shrinkage,
  • thriftiness,
  • curtailment,
  • caution,
  • Skimping,
  • abridgement,
  • retrenchments,
  • care,
  • moratorium,
  • husbandry,
  • restraint,
  • decrease,
  • cutback,
  • Parcity.
  •frugality (noun)
  • avariciousness,
  • moderation,
  • conservation,
  • saving.
  •parsimony (noun)
  • selfishness.
  •tightfistedness (noun)
  • tightfistedness.
  •tightness (noun)
  • tightness.

• Other synonyms:

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  • greed.

Antonyms for Niggardliness:

• n.

  • avarice
    generosity, philanthropy.
  • economy
    spending, squandering.
  • frugality
    lavishness, wastefulness.
  • Other antonyms:
    unselfishness, bountifulness, bounty, prodigality, openheartedness, liberality, openhandedness, largesse, improvidence, extravagance, dissipation.

Niggardliness Sentence Examples:

• The oncoming luminary was a singular - looking woman who may have been considerably less so in the privacy of her dressing - room; she had evidently expended much thought upon supplementing the niggardliness of Nature.

• How about the Government that deliberately entered on a war of which the end was perfectly foreseen, and, while seated safely in office at home, thought the " honour of Spain" sufficiently vindicated by offering up its navy, already made useless by neglect and niggardliness, as a sacrifice?