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- ungenerous; stingy吝啬的, 小气的：
mean, niggardly, and unnecessary regulations.
又刻薄、又小气的冗余规则。
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- meagre; scanty贫乏的, 不足的：
their share is a niggardly 2.7 per cent.
他们的股份只有区区2.7％。
- archaic in a stingy or meagre manner〈古〉吝啬地, 小气地。
USAGE
The word niggardly has no connection with the highly offensive term nigger, but because of the similarity of sound and its negative meaning of 'mean, ungenerous' many people are uncomfortable with using it for fear of causing offence, and in the US it is now widely avoided.
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