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Webster 1913 Edition

(nĭg′gẽrd-lĭ-nĕs)

Noun.

The quality or state of being niggard; meanness in giving or spending; parsimony; stinginess.

Niggardliness

is not good husbandry.

Addison.

Noun.

Mean covetousness; sordid parsimony; extreme avarice manifested in sparing expense.

Niggardliness is not good husbandry.

niggardliness ‎(usually uncountable, plural niggardlinesses)