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Niggardly vs Saving - What's the difference?

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As adjectives the difference between niggardly and saving

is that niggardly is withholding for the sake of meanness; stingy, miserly while saving is that saves someone from damnation; redemptive.

As an adverb niggardly

is in a parsimonious way; sparingly, stingily.

As a noun saving is

a reduction in cost or expenditure.

As a verb saving is

present participle of lang=en.

As a preposition saving is

with the exception of; except; save.

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")

    saving

    English

    Noun

  • A reduction in cost or expenditure.
    • The shift of the supplier gave us a saving of 10 percent.
  • (countable, usually plural) Something (usually money) that is saved.
    • I invested all my savings in gold.
  • (uncountable) The action of the verb to save.
  • (obsolete) exception; reservation
  • * L'Estrange
    • Contend not with those that are too strong for us, but still with a saving to honesty.

    Verb

    (head)

    • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • (theology) That saves someone from damnation; redemptive.
  • Preserving; rescuing.
  • * Bible, Psalms xxviii. 8
    • He is the saving strength of his anointed.
  • Thrifty; frugal.
    • a saving cook
  • * 1932 , (Lewis Grassic Gibbon), Sunset Song'', Polygon 2006 (''A Scots Quair ), p. 14:
    • Three of her bairns were drowned at sea, fishing off the Bervie braes they had been, but the fourth, the boy Cospatric, him that died the same day as the Old Queen, he was douce and saving and sensible, and set putting the estate to rights.
  • Bringing back in returns or in receipts the sum expended; incurring no loss, though not gainful.
    • a saving bargain
    The ship has made a saving voyage.
  • Making reservation or exception.
    • a saving clause

    Preposition

    (English prepositions)
  • With the exception of; except; save.
  • * Bible, Revelations ii. 17
    • And in the stone a new name written, which no man knoweth saving he that receiveth it.
  • Without disrespect to.
  • * Shakespeare
    • Saving your reverence.
  • * Burns
    • Saving your presence.

    Derived terms

    * life savings * saving grace