niggardliness

Baghdad’; for niggardliness is the worst fault a man can have.

The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

The deficiency of this state of character is called niggardliness, the excess vulgarity, lack of taste, and the like, which do not go to excess in the amount spent on right objects, but by showy expenditure in the wrong circumstances and the wrong manner; we shall speak of these vices later.

The Nicomachean Ethics Aristotle 2002

The deficiency of this state of character is called niggardliness, the excess vulgarity, lack of taste, and the like, which do not go to excess in the amount spent on right objects, but by showy expenditure in the wrong circumstances and the wrong manner; we shall speak of these vices later.

The NICOMACHEAN ETHICS Aristotle 1865

To maintain, month after month, supplies for so large an armament, was next to impossible; and to this much more than to the "niggardliness" of the Queen, [Footnote: Laughton, i., pp. lvii ff.

England under the Tudors

When their suspicions of our niggardliness or lack of peanuts had been confirmed, Jones half-turned his back on his life-partner and gave me his story.

THE HUSSY 2010

She is a girl who takes your love for granted in the same way as she gives hers, without niggardliness.

The Kempton-Wace Letters 2010

I was deciding between money and men, between niggardliness and romance.

Chapter 9 2010

It's not the complete idiocy of it that I mind, it's the boldfaced niggardliness of it all.

Bibliophile Bullpen 2008

It's not the complete idiocy of it that I mind, it's the boldfaced niggardliness of it all.

Archive 2008-06-01 2008

But for all its fumbling and niggardliness, the Overland honored itself by publishing the story, begged for more, and eventually published nine of the young author's Yukon classics.

“. . .confusion to the Mounted Police!” 2008