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Does the word niggardly offend you?

nig·gard·ly 1. reluctant to give or spend; stingy; miserly. 2. meanly or ungenerously small or scanty: a niggardly tip to a waiter. –adverb 3. in the manner of a niggard. ------ Even though there is no reference to race in the definition people get outraged by the use of the word. There was a big uproar about the word in 1999 when David Howard, a mayoral aid for Washington DC, used it in a reference for a budget.

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