niggardly

adj

1. Withholding for the sake of meanness; stingy, miserly.

   “[W]here the owner of the house will be bountiful, it is not for the steward to be niggardly.”

   “They were not niggardly, these tramps, and he who had money did not hesitate to share it among the rest.”

   “This manifests itself in an implacable tendency to provide an opulent supply of some things and a niggardly yield of others.”

2. Conceding few runs (of a bowler).

adv

1. (archaic)In a parsimonious way; sparingly, stingily.

   “because many families are compelled to live niggardly, exhaust and undone by great dowers, none shall be given at all, or very little […].”