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• n  a selfish person who is unwilling to give or spend

• No niggard, the Aga Khan charges for the really enormous quantity of water in which he bathes each year, only his weight in gold.
• Scurrilous persons who might have called Il Duce a Christmas niggard forebore to do so, last week, when he despatched 300 tons of food supplies and clothing to gladden .
• No niggard, however, Alf Landon gave the fraternity a cuspidor.

• skinflint
• scrooge
• churl