niggardliness

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

It was one of the results of Mazarin's niggardliness.

It was after this visit that Becky, who had paid her weekly bills, Becky who had made herself agreeable to everybody in the house, who smiled at the landlady, called the waiters "monsieur," and paid the chambermaids in politeness and apologies, what far more than compensated for a little niggardliness in point of money (of which Becky never was free), that Becky, we say, received a notice to quit from the landlord, who had been told by some one that she was quite an unfit person to have at his hotel, where English ladies would not sit down with her.

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.

And Jane Fairfax's "reserve," her niggardliness in communication, comes up recurrently for criticism.

Federal Election Commission, (330) and its niggardliness in Holder v.

As for expending wealth, the merchant should take precaution against five factors, namely, niggardliness (al-lu'm), tight-fistedness (al-taqtir), intemperance (al-saraf), ostentatiousness (al-badhakh), and bad management (su' al-tadbir).

The November 2008 stimulus package was notable only for its niggardliness and timidity.

Like his preening insistence that he was always 39--or that he was an accomplished violinist--Benny's pretend niggardliness was funny but also geriatric, unsexy, and possibly even emasculating.