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niggardlinesses

niggardlinesses is the plural of niggardliness.

Meaning of niggardliness

Noun

niggardliness (usually uncountable, plural niggardlinesses)

  1. (usually) The state of being niggardly; parsimony.
    • Whatever obscurity or incongruity attaches to the statements I have quoted, those who made them are manifestly at one as to the two cardinal facts, that Cavendish was, for the first forty years of his life, a poor man, and for the last thirty-nine an unusually wealthy one. No one seems able to...1851, George Wilson, The Life of the Hon. Henry Cavendish, page 161

Questions about niggardlinesses

What is niggardlinesses the plural of?
Niggardlinesses is the plural of niggardliness.

Words near niggardlinesses in the dictionary

  1. niggardise
  2. niggardish
  3. niggardliest
  4. niggardlily
  5. niggardliness
  6. niggardlinesses
  7. niggardly
  8. niggardness
  9. niggardous
  10. niggardry
  11. niggards

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