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Example sentences for: niggardly

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3) Howard says the episode was "really not about me or the use of the word niggardly.
The conservative Daily Telegraph called the decision "overdue"; the liberal Guardian said the government's response to the refugee crisis has been "slow and niggardly."
The editorial deplores the resignation of a white Washington, D.C., mayoral aide for uttering the word "niggardly" in a financial management meeting.
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.
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.”