niggardliness

noun

1 he condemned the Government's niggardliness about funding:

meanness, miserliness, parsimony, parsimoniousness, close-fistedness, penny-pinching, cheese-paring, penury, illiberality;

informal stinginess, tight-fistedness, tightness, minginess;

North American cheapness;

archaic nearness.

▷antonyms generosity.

2 he was disappointed at the niggardliness of his reward:

meagreness, inadequacy, scantiness, paltriness, limitedness, restrictedness, insufficiency, sparseness, spareness, deficiency, shortness, slightness, skimpiness, leanness, poorness, poverty, pitifulness, puniness, beggarliness;

informal measliness;

rare exiguity.

▷antonyms lavishness, abundance.

niggardly Oxford Dictionary of English