niggard

1 Moreover, the dazzling promises of Zurdoki, who was no niggard with his money, had also great weight with her.

2 This he dispensed with no niggard hand, and so the peace was kept; but it was late in the day when she was again fairly under way for home.

3 What magnanimous is not the Dao but the man. A niggard cannot do it.

话多是虚荣的迹象,因为在用词上过分大方的人在做事上却是个小气鬼.

4 Well, Sandie, at ten o’clock, brought round Laird Fletcher’s horse, and before mounting, the Laird, who, with all his wealth, was a wee bit of a niggard, gave him twopence.

5 He was not a niggard, however, in his expenditure.

6 Moreover, in rhymes, thought Guy, Pauline was no niggard; and with a flicker of sardonic humor he recalled how many Swinburne had found for Faustine.

7 Here is the freshest and the best drink I have; I am no niggard.

8 He came poor, and that niggard land never made him rich.

9 The life of the colonists was a daily battle with niggard Nature—for New Mexico was never fertile—and with deadliest danger.

10 Sir Wentworth had long passed through the spendthrift stage, and was very close with respect to money-matters; a harsh and griping landlord, and it is probable enough a niggard parent.

11 Don't expect that niggard to invite you to dinner.

别指望那个吝啬鬼会请你吃饭.

12 They began to look the most snivelling of sins as I watched, with spacious leisure, the near procession of gigantic trees, that superb wild which did not arise from such niggard and flinty maxims.

13 But Maw Pritchett and her son and daughter seemed to be used to the old man’s way, and they helped each other and the Bray girls with no niggard hand.

14 My husband is a poor and niggard churl To him, whoe'er he be, that loves the girl.

15 It's affected us in most every way, but Dave is no niggard, and the inducement has been made more than proportionate, so there's no kick coming on that head.

16 He is a niggard, that little fellow, and gives but little; and those to whom he gives have not enough wherewith to enjoy themselves.

17 Nature has dispensed the first necessary of life with a most niggard hand, those pools which have not a constant supply of running water soon become adulterated by various decompositions of organic and inorganic matter.

18 When one gives at all, it should be with a lavish hand, and not stingily as is that niggard's wont.

19 such a niggard that he refused to hand out candy at Halloween, saying it would cost too much money

20 "I wish you were not such a niggard of it."

1 小气鬼

stiff penny-pincher meanie skinflint piker skin clown nipper miser titmouse cheap mit cheap skate

2 贪吝

sordid scrimpy scrimp

3 吝啬的

mean small close cheap tight stingy grasping miserly illiberal parsimonious churlish chary penurious niggardly mingy tightfisted cheeseparing closefisted hardfisted scrimpy narrow-fisted little near narrow managing skinny shabby scant paltry scaly sordid skimpy scanty screwy grudging penny-pinching ungenerous unhandsome costive pinchpenny close-fisted gripple iron fisted

4 守财奴

miserly screw miser curmudgeon skinflint hunks churl muckworm

5 吝啬

mean small close cheap tight stingy grasping miserly illiberal parsimonious churlish chary penurious niggardly mingy tightfisted cheeseparing closefisted hardfisted scrimpy nearly parsimony penury screw pinch skimp scant narrow-fisted little near narrow managing skinny shabby paltry scaly sordid skimpy scanty screwy grudging penny-pinching ungenerous unhandsome costive pinchpenny close-fisted gripple skimpingly meanly stingily charily pikerism closeness nearness meanness smallness stinginess littleness miserliness illiberality chariness scrimp iron fisted careful miserable scotch nippy beggarly ironfisted chinchy hunks squeeze the eagle

6 小气的人

deemer

7 小气的

mean close narrow scotch skimpy miserly small-minded penny-pinching chintzy ungenerous pimping mingy unhandsome cheeseparing close-fisted niggardly small tight careful miserable contracted nigh scaly stingy nippy illiberal parsimonious costive carking closefisted hardfisted ironfisted

8 吝啬鬼

muckworm skin-flint screw scraper cheapskate miser scrooge skinflint tightwad hunks churl pinchpenny penny-pincher penny pincher meanie stinge

9 贪吝的

sordid scrimpy

10 小气

mean close narrow scotch skimpy miserly small-minded penny-pinching chintzy ungenerous pimping mingy unhandsome cheeseparing close-fisted skimpingly meanly stingily pikerism meanness smallness parsimony niggardly small tight careful miserable contracted nigh scaly stingy nippy illiberal parsimonious costive carking closefisted hardfisted ironfisted