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  • 71illiberal — I adjective avaricious, avarus, biased, bigoted, churlish, close, close fisted, conservative, covetous, dogmatic, fanatical, grasping, greedy, grudging, hidebound, inhospitable, inliberalis, intolerant, mean, mercenary, miserly, narrow, narrow… …

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  • 72churlish — a. 1. Rude, harsh, brusque, uncivil, impolite, rough, brutish, surly, cynical, snarling, snappish, waspish. 2. Crabbed, morose, sullen, ill tempered. 3. Niggardly, miserly, close, close fisted, sordid, penurious, stingy, mean, illiberal …

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  • 73illiberal — a. 1. Parsimonious, stingy, miserly, niggardly, penurious, ungenerous, sordid, covetous, mean, selfish, close, close fisted. 2. Uncharitable, narrow, narrow minded …

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  • 74miserly — a. Covetous, avaricious, niggardly, sordid, stingy, parsimonious, penurious, close, mean, close fisted …

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  • 75niggardly — a. 1. Parsimonious, covetous, stingy, avaricious, miserly, penurious, sordid, mean, illiberal, mercenary, niggard, close, close fisted. 2. Saving, sparing, chary …

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  • 76sordid — a. 1. Mean, base, vile, low, degraded. 2. Ccvetous, avaricious, stingy, miserly, niggardly, close, illiberal, ungenerous, penurious, close fisted …

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  • 77stingy — a. Niggardly, penurious, parsimonious, miserly, close, mean, covetous, avaricious, sordid, close fisted, narrow hearted …

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  • 78parsimonious — adjective Lou s parsimonious mother was horrified by his lavish spending Syn: cheap, miserly, mean, niggardly, close fisted, close, penny pinching, ungenerous, Scroogelike; informal tightfisted, cheeseparing, tight, stingy, mingy; formal… …

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  • 79sparing — adjective a fiercely sparing man, he died rich and friendless Syn: thrifty, economical, frugal, canny, careful, prudent, cautious; mean, miserly, niggardly, parsimonious, close fisted, penny pinching, ungenerous, close, grasping; informal stingy …

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  • 80parsimonious — niggardly, penurious, *stingy, close, close fisted, tight, tightfisted, miserly, cheeseparing, penny pinching Analogous words: avaricious, *covetous, grasping, greedy: *sparing, frugal: *mean, ignoble, sordid, abject Antonyms: prodigal Contrasted …

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