nig·gard·lyˈni-gərd-lē
niggardliness如何读
niggardliness是什么意思
adj. (形容词)
- 吝啬的
- 很少量的
- 惜笔墨的
- 心地狭窄的
- 不值钱的
- 小气地
- 很少量地
niggardliness英英释义
adjective
see usage paragraph below grudgingly mean about spending or granting : begrudging
… management was being niggardly with raises.—Dana Canedy
see usage paragraph below provided in meanly limited supply
… niggardly funding of planetary science.—Richard Wolkomir
niggardliness词源英文解释
The first known use of niggardly was in 1563
niggardliness儿童词典英英释义
niggardlyadjective
stingy sense 1, miserly
characteristic of a niggard : scanty
niggardliness 例句
1 The detestable niggardliness of Nabal’s heart would not suffer him to part with anything which he could find an excuse for retaining.
2 Mr. Haggard does not err on the side of niggardliness; he is only too affluent in description and ornament....
3 Thus it is comparatively safe to indulge in extravagance as a cure for niggardliness; the reverse process must be used with caution.
4 History's niggardliness, however, has been compensated for by the prodigality of legend, which has woven many a fanciful tale about his life.
5 You have also heard much of his niggardliness in money transactions.
6 Perhaps she realized the niggardliness of her gifts.
7 We should not act like Philoxenus, the son of Eryxis; for he, blaming, as it seems, the niggardliness of nature, wished to have the neck of a crane for the purposes of enjoyment.
8 In one age, poverty shall be wiped out; in another, passion and hatred and jealousy shall cease; in a third, beauty shall take the place of ugliness, happiness of pain, and generosity of niggardliness.
9 The reader, however, is not to infer from this fact any niggardliness of spirit, or any want of faith, on the part of Isabella.
10 The affliction is due, they say, to the wrath of God, to the niggardliness of nature, or to the encroachments of foreign nations.
11 It is neither the result of divine anger nor the niggardliness of Nature.
12 Thus if a person has the vice of niggardliness, the practice of liberality is not sufficient to cure him.
13 There was indeed an abundance of candles in the vessel; nevertheless, it was my business to husband them with the utmost niggardliness.
14 This testimony seems somewhat exaggerated, as we have many proofs of his niggardliness.
15 On its heels tread William Makepeace Thackeray’s The Rose and the Ring and John Ruskin’s The King of a Golden River, another tale of the costs of miserly niggardliness.
16 The earth had been so niggardly of her produce.
17 Hunt faced down Slickpenny Norris on the open street, to the delight of the bystanders, over the banker’s niggardliness in opposing the building and equipment of the hospital.
18 Fortunately, in this particular, niggardliness went hand in hand with common-sense.
19 It is generally used as if it meant parsimony, stinginess, or niggardliness; and, at best, merely the refraining from expending money.
20 Want and niggardliness characterise his reign, and after his defeat a better state of things prevails.