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The definition of niggardly is cheap, meager or stingy.

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Leaving a five percent tip instead of a 15 percent tip is an example of a tip amount that would be described as niggardly.

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See niggardly in Webster's New World College Dictionary

adjective

like or characteristic of a niggard; stingy; miserly
small, few, or scanty, as if given by a niggard: a niggardly sum

adverb

in the manner of a niggard; stingily

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niggardliness noun

See niggardly in American Heritage Dictionary 4

adjective

Grudging and petty in giving or spending.
Meanly small; scanty or meager: left the waiter a niggardly tip.

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nigˈgard·li·ness noun

nigˈgard·ly adverb

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