niggardise

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noun

Niggardliness.

First used 16th–19th c.Scrabble 13
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Meanings

nounniggardise (uncountable)
  1. obsoleteuncountableNiggardliness.First known use 16th–19th c.

    “For he, whose daies in wilfull woe are worne, / The grace of his Creator doth despise, / That will not use his gifts for thanklesse nigardise.”

    1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book IV, Canto VIII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC

Synonyms & antonyms

Also see
niggardliness

Origin

From niggard + -ise.

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APA

niggardise. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/niggardise

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Chicago

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