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Перевод: niggardly

[прилагательное]
скупой; скаредный; скудный;
[наречие]
скупо; скудно

Тезаурус:

1. The department I was attached to was fighting an uphill battle against prejudice from the old school clique and the niggardly allowances from the Treasury.
2. That comes automatically, together with iced water, before Peggy Sue begins interrogating you, and is replenished so often and so generously that you make a note to speak harshly to the next British rip-off artist who rushes you 80p for a niggardly Nescafe.
3. She has also proved more willing to allocate political honours to party workers than was Mr Heath who had been particularly niggardly in this regard.
4. Just imagine the abuse with which they would be showered by people who would tell them: "Since it is easily possible for the economy to grow at 4, 5, 6 per cent or any other figure you like, the public are being cheated of the growth of public expenditure which they have a right to enjoy by this niggardly Government which is only counting on being able safely to increase public expenditure at a rate of 2 to 2and1/2; per cent."
5. Renault's current share of the British diesel market is a niggardly 2.7 per cent (3,832 last year, six per cent of their total sales; compare that with Citroen's 32 per cent diesel sales).
6. Sex, when properly understood, is one of the greatest human pleasures, and I have never seen why the older generation should be so niggardly about passing on the information.
7. This would please Calpers, whose proxy voting has been partly aimed at raising Japan's niggardly pay-outs.
8. Lastly, again does it not occur to us that niggardly education provision over years has contributed to a level of national vulgarity, taste, social behaviour virtually unacceptable in the modern world?
9. a corkscrew, or (sl.) a niggardly person.
10. This can be either broad, with the full expression of human feeling common only to the Labour movement, or it may be narrow, niggardly and mean with only the objective of shirking responsibility, and never carrying out in the spirit of those laws work which could be applied to make the conditions of the working people easier, and the lives of their children brighter and better.
11. He promised a powerful research ministry to push the niggardly 1.8 per cent of gross domestic product spent on research to 2.5 per cent by 1985.
12. Agnes often thought about the disparity in wages: while she was getting fifteen shillings a week, Arthur Peeble only got a pound, and he had a young family to bring up on that, and Nan Henderson's wage was a niggardly eight and six for a long-day week.
13. The fight put up by the Health and Safety Commission to get more money saw niggardly extra funding at the end of the last year.