" You're a niggardly man, " said Karl, " and a liar" .
" 你是个吝啬鬼," 卡尔道," 骗子。"
冰与火之歌:列王的纷争(中英对照)
" Now there's a niggardly response. Give me more than that, or your next answer will be as poor" .
" 瞧,多吝啬的回答,说详细点,否则您的下个答案也一样简略哟。"
月亮和六便士(精简版)
They were not niggardly, these tramps, and he who had money did not hesitate to share it among the rest.
这些流浪汉并不吝啬,谁手头有钱都乐于同别人分享。
西南联大英文教本
But niggardly and angular speakers are rare.
但吝啬和棱角分明的扬声器很少见。
大地的成长(上)
By all signs and tokens, making ready for another turn; she was not what you'd call niggardly at bearing.
通过所有迹象和令牌, 为另一个转弯做好准备; 她不是你所说的“卑鄙地承受” 。
福尔摩斯探案集:新探案(下)
He was a miserable miser who made his wife so wretched by his niggardly ways that she was a ready prey for any adventurer.
他是一个悲惨的守财奴, 他的吝啬使他的妻子如此悲惨, 以至于她成为任何冒险家的现成猎物。
乌有乡消息(上)
Incredible shabbiness and niggardly pinching reigned over the fields and acres which, in spite of the rude and careless husbandry of the times, were so kind and bountiful.
" The Tyrells would think us niggardly. I will have the wedding and the waterfront. If you cannot pay for them, say so, and I shall find a master of coin who can" .
Queen Selyse sniffed. " We are done with Eastwatch. We did not like it there. A queen should be mistress beneath her own roof. We found your Cotter Pyke to be an uncouth and unpleasant man, quarrelsome and niggardly" .
Necessity had made the poor girl so niggardly that Grandet had grown to love her as we love a dog, and Nanon had let him fasten a spiked collar round her throat, whose spikes no longer pricked her.
In the United States, there have been several controversies concerning the word "niggardly", an adjective meaning "stingy" or "miserly", because of its phonetic similarity to the racial slur "nigger". Etymologically the two words are unrelated.