Birçok kişi onu bir cimri olarak düşündü.
- Many people considered him a niggard.
is heart swelled within him, as he sat at the head of his own table, on the occasion of the house-warming, dispensing with no niggard hand the gratuitous viands and unlimited beer, which were at once to symbolise and inaugurate the hospitality of his mansion.
All his pleasures were social; and while health and fortune smiled upon him, he was no niggard either of his time or talents to those who needed them.
This manifests itself in an implacable tendency to provide an opulent supply of some things and a niggardly yield of others.
because many families are compelled to live niggardly, exhaust and undone by great dowers, none shall be given at all, or very little .