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niggardly
vs
penny-wise
niggardly
adj
Withholding for the sake of meanness; stingy, miserly.
penny-wise
adj
Thrifty in regards to small amounts of money.
How often have the words
niggardly
and
penny-wise
occurred in a corpus of books?
(source:
Google Ngram Viewer
)