Journal nandorman's Journal: Niggardly 3
I'm rather sick of people working themselves into a tizzy every time someone else uses the word "niggardly." Come on, people. It's a good word, and there's no good synonym for it. "Parsimonious" is too much like frugal. "Penurious" carries the conotation that the person is poor. "Stingy" and "miserly" imply a love of saving money or of the money itself. "Niggardly" is rather like being stingy for the sake of being stingy; I refuse to say a whole sentence when a perfectly good word will do!
I'll tell you what, I'll stop using the word "niggardly" when the following sentence becomes outlawed:
While eating my Burger King Whopper and listening to my spigot run, I found a chink in my kitchen counter.
After all, isn't that sentence offensive of Italians, Hispanics, and Chinese, respectively?
I'll tell you what, I'll stop using the word "niggardly" when the following sentence becomes outlawed:
While eating my Burger King Whopper and listening to my spigot run, I found a chink in my kitchen counter.
After all, isn't that sentence offensive of Italians, Hispanics, and Chinese, respectively?
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