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What is the noun for niggardliness?

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niggard
  1. A miser or stingy person; a skinflint.
  2. A false bottom in a grate, used for saving fuel.
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  4. Examples:
    1. “Your chief is either a niggard, or you are a fool, to come empty-handed into the mountains.”
niggardship
  1. (obsolete) Niggardliness; stinginess.
niggardise
  1. (obsolete) Niggardliness. [16th-19th c.]
niggardliness
  1. The state of being niggardly.
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  3. Examples:
    1. “Men with implausible whiskers and killer breath traded ribaldry and cursed the niggardliness of non-buyers, while women doled out penny dainties to raggedy kids and cackled about their menfolk's amorous shortcomings.”
      “The niggardliness of the company's salary increase left employees feeling undervalued and discontented.”
      “There is a kind of niggardliness that mistakes itself for measure, for judgment.”
niggardy
  1. (obsolete) Niggardliness.
  2. Examples:
    1. “The Dublin regime's niggardy stipend could not support the retirees, so many had to find work.”
niggardry
  1. (obsolete) Niggardliness.
niggardness
niggardlinesses
niggards
  1. plural of niggard
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  3. Examples:
    1. “So a relatively high price assures that the place will not be overrun by beer drinking mobs and niggards like other places.”
      “They rob the purse of the niggards, punish the wife-beating husband and give headache to the lazy worker.”
      “Better that, after all, than the niggards who manage not to pay any tax at all from their vast earnings should be blamed.”
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