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Niggardly vs Cheeseparing - What's the difference?

niggardly | cheeseparing |

As adjectives the difference between niggardly and cheeseparing

is that niggardly is withholding for the sake of meanness; stingy, miserly while cheeseparing is niggardly, stingy.

As an adverb niggardly

is in a parsimonious way; sparingly, stingily.

As a verb cheeseparing is

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As a noun cheeseparing is

a small fragment or sliver.

niggardly

English

(Controversies about the word "niggardly")

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Withholding for the sake of meanness; stingy, miserly.
  • * Bishop Hall
    • Where the owner of the house will be bountiful, it is not for the steward to be niggardly .
  • * 1919 ,
    • They were not niggardly , these tramps, and he who had money did not hesitate to share it among the rest.
  • * 1958 , , The Affluent Society (1998 edition), ISBN 9780395925003, p. 186:
    • This manifests itself in an implacable tendency to provide an opulent supply of some things and a niggardly yield of others.

    Synonyms

    * miserly, stingy. * See also

    Adverb

    (en adverb)
  • In a parsimonious way; sparingly, stingily.
  • *, New York 2001, p.105:
    • because many families are compelled to live niggardly , exhaust and undone by great dowers, none shall be given at all, or very little […].

    Usage notes

    * This term may cause offence as it is easily misinterpreted to be an adverbial form of the racial epithet (nigger). Racist Language, Real and Imagined , Steven Pinker. February 2, 1999. The New York Times (editorial). The two words are etymologically unrelated.

    References

    See also

    * (Controversies about the word "niggardly")

    cheeseparing

    English

    Alternative forms

    * cheese-paring

    Verb

    (head)

    • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • niggardly, stingy

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • A small fragment or sliver.
  • * 1841 , Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (volume 50, page 740)
    • For this reason I publish it periodically in parts, and in the light unrestrained form of conversation, as best adapted for the convenience of those who can only read at odd hours during the cheeseparings of time.