niggardly

niggardly

englanti

1. saita, kitsas

Liittyvät sanat: close-fisted, tight-fisted, tight-arsed

Synonyymisanakirja: niggardly

niggardly

1. saita, itara, kitsas, nuuka, vastahakoinen, pihistelevä.

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Riimisanakirja: niggardly

niggardly rimmaa näiden kanssa:

1. hely, viljely, osa-aikaviljely, kuokkaviljely, lavaviljely, parvekeviljely, kasvihuoneviljely, koeviljely, kateviljely, kotitarveviljely...

Katso riimisanakirja

Käännökset: niggardly

niggardly suomeksi

saita, kitsas

• pihi, nuuka, saita, itara

niggardly englanniksi

• puhekieltä withholding Withholding for the sake of meanness; stingy, miserly.

• Bishop Hall

Where the owner of the house will be bountiful, it is not for the steward to be niggardly.

• 1919, w:William Somerset Maugham|W. Somerset Maugham, w:The Moon and Sixpence|The Moon and Sixpence, s:The Moon and Sixpence/Chapter XLVII|chapter 47

They were not niggardly, these tramps, and he who had money did not hesitate to share it among the rest.

• 1958, w:John Kenneth Galbraith|John Kenneth Galbraith, The Affluent Society (1998 edition), ISBN 9780395925003, http://books.google.ca/books?id=IfH010hvIqcC&printsec=frontcover&source=gbs_ge_summary_r&cad=0v=onepage&q=niggardly&f=false p. 186:

This manifests itself in an implacable tendency to provide an opulent supply of some things and a niggardly yield of others.

• puhekieltä In a parsimonious way; sparingly, stingily.

• (RQ:RBrtn AntmyMlncl), New York 2001, p.105:

because many families are compelled to live niggardly, exhaust and undone by great dowers, none shall be given at all, or very little ….

Katso niggardly englanniksi

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