Adjective

1. Withholding for the sake of meanness; stingy, miserly.

Adverb

1. In a parsimonious way; sparingly, stingily.
   • 1621, Robert Burton, The Anatomy of Melancholy, New York 2001, p. 105:

     because many families are compelled to live niggardly, exhaust and undone by great dowers, none shall be given at all, or very little [...].

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