niggard, grasping

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adjective DISAPPROVING
(of people) always trying to get and keep more of something, especially money:
a grasping, greedy man

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niggard
n.
A stingy, grasping person; a miser. 吝啬的人；小气鬼

adj.
Stingy; miserly.

[Middle English nigard, perhaps from nig, stingy person, of Scandinavian origin.]
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