(n.) A person meanly close and covetous; one who spends grudgingly; a stingy, parsimonous fellow; a miser.
(a.) Like a niggard; meanly covetous or parsimonious; niggardly; miserly; stingy.
(v. t. & i.) To act the niggard toward; to be niggardly.
Example Sentences:
(1) British feminists being as niggardly in the Sun 's respect as they are about subsidising lap-dancing clubs, visiting Formula One brothels and subscribing to the late men's magazine, Nuts , a periodical brought to its knees by jealous harpies.
(2) If a 'niggardly' attitude is taken this will be impossible".
(3) Yet in a world that accepts same sex-marriage they see such “niggardly exemptions” as not enough to guarantee their freedom.
(4) Despite spending only "tuppence" in the transfer window and losing 16 players in the summer, Paul Ince has moulded a niggardly side; they had conceded only two goals in the league and kept three clean sheets before this fixture.
Stinting
Definition:
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Stint
Example Sentences:
(1) We already have a hard enough time trusting our technology and understanding what it’s doing,” says Soltani, who worked on regulation for the Federal Trade Commission with a brief stint at the White House.
(2) Today, after stints in the shadows of Whitehall and the private sector, Tim Matthews is back in the limelight as the new chief executive of Remploy, the quango that has been in the eye of a storm over closure of many of its factories providing jobs for people with disabilities.
(3) Cartilage segment alignment with focal, complete fracture healing and symmetrical chondrocyte proliferation were seen in fibrogen adhesive-stinted larynges.
(4) During his stints in the Bush and Obama administration Comey has continually taken authoritarian and factually dubious public stances both at odds with responsible public policy and sometimes the law.
(5) With a high level of English gleaned from an Erasmus stint in Oxford, she was eager to move to London.
(6) Tony Abbott’s chief of staff, Peta Credlin, was informed of Stuart Robert’s plans to travel directly from a controversial stint in China to an official commitment in Singapore, a committee has been told.
(7) Smith did his stint in a far-flung corner of the oil empire, as all ambitious Shell employees are required to do, spending four and a half years in Malaysia and Brunei along with spells in the Middle East and the US and as head of technology at Shell Chemicals.
(8) During his long stint in the witness stand, Harris was questioned at length about why he expressed abject remorse to the father for his actions, offering a little more credible explanation than he felt ending the relationship had upset the woman.
(9) 2010: Sir Terry Leahy, by now regarded as one of Britain’s most successful businessmen, announces plans to retire after a 14-year stint as chief executive saying he felt he had achieved his aim to “develop a purpose and values that could sustain Tesco through its challenges.” 2011: Phil Clarke becomes chief executive in March just before announcing record profits of £3.8bn .
(10) Even in the past few months, KC Grad has gained new neighbours, including the Ben Akiba comedy club – which relocated to Savamala after a stint in the city centre – as well as the Berliner beer hall.
(11) Rock has faced calls to walk away from his second stint as host in protest at the US Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences’ failure to nominate a single actor from black or ethnic minority backgrounds for the second year running.
(12) His stint in space marks a shift in the astronaut breed, away from the robotic iciness of Nasa's early crews to the more modern species that openly revels in the wonder of falling round the Earth.
(13) He attended the Sorbonne and went into journalism via reporting during Indira Gandhi's Indian emergency, followed by stints on the Liverpool Daily Post and Echo, later the Economist.
(14) The club’s former academy head had been widely tipped to replace previous incumbent Darko Milanic, who was in charge for just 32 days, and this permanent appointment follows three separate stints as caretaker manager at Elland Road for the former Barnsley player.
(15) And then, in 1937, she married Sydney Oswald Spark, otherwise known as "SOS", an older man and, apparently, "a borderline case", about to embark on a three-year stint as a schoolteacher in Rhodesia.
(16) He has taken on stints as a stable hand, been a door-to-door salesman and set up stages for local concerts: rarely does David Pena turn down a job.
(17) Cellino raised eyebrows this summer when he appointed Hockaday, whose previous managerial experience was limited to an unimpressive stint at non-league Forest Green Rovers.
(18) A guest stint for anyone can only harm you and coming back without any sort of plan and substance is always a recipe for disaster.
(19) Totally, unbelievably untrue, but it does create doubt and they just drive right through that.” The appearance, her fourth on the late-night talk show circuit after stints on Jimmy Kimmel Live, the Late Show With Stephen Colbert and the Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon, also had lighter moments.
(20) If Hiddink takes the job it will be the second interim stint from the Dutchman after he took charge for three and a half months at the end of the 2008-09 season when Luiz Felipe Scolari was sacked, and he went on to win the FA Cup.