Words similar to niggardly

Example sentences for: niggardly

How can you use “niggardly” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

Washington, D.C., Mayor Anthony Williams decided to rehire a white aide who had resigned for using the word "niggardly."
Mayor Anthony Williams of Washington, D.C., accepted the resignation of an aide for using the word "niggardly ." Williams is black; the aide, David Howard, is white.
3) Howard says the episode was "really not about me or the use of the word niggardly.
Two of the more common examples of British-American divergence of usage are screw and knock up . In Vanity Fair (Chapter 39), the niggardly Sir Pitt was not nearly the aerial acrobat your American sophomore might fancy him to be when he “screwed his tenants by letter.”
In a front-pager headlined "An Official's Vocabulary Lesson/Some Words are Defined by More than the Dictionary," the WP tells how on Monday a white Washington, D.C., city government department head resigned after many blacks in his agency complained bitterly over his use of the word "niggardly" in a business meeting with two subordinates, one white and one black.