What's the difference between largess and niggardliness?

Largess

Definition:

(a.) Alt. of Largesse

Example Sentences:

(1) Mike Newell , who made Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire , directed Great Expectations, but there was no big-budget largesse this time.
(2) Despite numerous irregularities ... you have managed to thwart this regime’s congenital traps of fraud.” Bongo, 57, who first won election after his father Omar died in 2009 after 42 years as president, has benefited from the power of incumbency as well as a patronage system lubricated by oil largesse.
(3) There were Francis Ford Coppola and Jeremy Irons, Orlando Bloom and Steven Seagal, Sophia Loren and Dionne Warwick, all gathered in the leafy heights of southern Moscow for a charity gala like no other: this charity does not dispense its largesse.
(4) One small shareholder, who introduced himself as Captain Hawker, said BP had stepped into a “PR nightmare” by handing out such largesse when the rest of the country was mired in austerity.
(5) Now, with the nation he inherited from his father squeezed by prolonged international sanctions and largesse from its former communist allies mostly gone, Kim is calling on farmers to win him another battle.
(6) In some societies, particularly Islamic ones, the wealthy bestow their largesse on religious foundations.
(7) In June, when the chancellor announces future government spending plans, he will claim that recent growth in the AME budget has been as much structural as cyclical, driven by political choices, not social need, and he will attack Labour for increasing spending on tax credits and welfare largesse.
(8) Sixth-formers would miss out on the largesse, however, with the IFS calculating that “spending per student in 16-18 education would remain about 10% lower than it would be for secondary schools”, no matter who wins the coming election.
(9) Nor was the largesse recouped only by wealthy councils, since redistribution shared revenue nationwide.
(10) From central European minnows such as Slovakia to Baltic eurozone republics such as Latvia and Lithuania , hard-pressed pensioners and workers earning barely €500 a month are at a loss as to why Greece should qualify for more largesse.
(11) By the time Mobutu was overthrown in 1997, after two decades of American and other western largesse, his country had just about one tenth of the paved roads it had had at independence in the early Sixties.
(12) They have guns, supporters and, after years of western largesse, plenty of money, and are once again flexing their muscles, so the Taliban cannot only talk with the government.
(13) But in saying that he "expects" the two parties to campaign separately at the next general election , he was providing a foretaste of a nightmare for most of Clegg's foot soldiers – come 2015, those Lib Dem MPs who cling to their seats will do so thanks to Cameron's largesse.
(14) The oldest argument against the largesse of capitalism's winners is that philanthropists can achieve more simply by paying higher wages, rather than amassing wealth and giving it away as they see fit.
(15) It is more, really, than he deserves for his single outburst of politeness and his periodic financial largesse.
(16) But one UN official said sarcastically that it had just been "an accident of history" that South Korea's largesse to Africa coincided with the secretary general's selection.
(17) Back then, companies that made the Unix operating system could afford largesse.
(18) The goal for most communities in any electoral exercise is to be on the winning side and thus better placed to benefit from the winner's largesse.
(19) The call for largesse to rescue the European south riled the former prime minister: "We shouldn't pay for Greece.
(20) In addition, although the consultation portion of the effort can be reimbursed in part in some cases through fee for services, the liaison portion is dependent on the donation of psychiatry time or the largesse of the host department.