See niggardly in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
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"id2": "adverbial",
"pos2": "adverbial suffix"
},
"expansion": "niggard + -ly (adverbial suffix)",
"name": "af"
}
],
"etymology_text": "From niggard + -ly (adverbial suffix).",
"forms": [
{
"form": "more niggardly",
"tags": [
"comparative"
]
},
{
"form": "most niggardly",
"tags": [
"superlative"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {},
"expansion": "niggardly (comparative more niggardly, superlative most niggardly)",
"name": "en-adv"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "adv",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"English terms with rare senses"
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": ", New York 2001, p.105",
"text": "because many families are compelled to live niggardly, exhaust and undone by great dowers, none shall be given at all, or very little […]."
}
],
"glosses": [
"In a parsimonious way; sparingly, stingily."
],
"links": [
[
"parsimonious",
"parsimonious"
],
[
"sparingly",
"sparingly"
],
[
"stingily",
"stingily"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(now rare) In a parsimonious way; sparingly, stingily."
],
"tags": [
"archaic"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/ˈnɪɡədli/",
"tags": [
"UK"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/ˈnɪɡɚdli/",
"tags": [
"US"
]
},
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}
],
"word": "niggardly"
}
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