niggard, grasping. hoots from the far right and grumbling from European neighbors miffed that Germany was unilaterally taking the high ground without taking their interests into account.

In 2015 when Angela Merkel, the former center-right chancellor of Germany, declined to shut her country’s doors to asylum seekers coming into Europe, she garnered bouquets from liberals, but also hoots from the far right and grumbling from European neighbors miffed that Germany was unilaterally taking the high ground without taking their interests into account.

grasping Show phonetics
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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