Definition of "niggard" []

• A stingy, grasping person; a miser. (noun)
• Stingy; miserly. (adjective)

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• "The Highland soldier, far from his country, is accompanied by this holy love, this inexhaustible stimulus to exertion, which induces him to save with what may be unjustly called a niggard hand his earnings, to support, in their old age, those who have given him birth."
• "The niggard is a thief; he steals from himself in not allowing himself what is needful."
• "On account that people (including blacks) are inclined to confuse “niggard” with a similar word which is a racial slur."