Definition of "niggardly" in English

adjective

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

   • [W]here the owner of the house will be bountiful, it is not for the steward to be niggardly.

adverb

1. (now rare) In a parsimonious way; sparingly, stingily.

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