Niggardly means mean and grudging in what is given. A niggardly portion.
It comes from a Scandinavian root for a miser and has no connection at all to any racial word. The resemblance has caused real trouble, which is why careful writers now use mean or stingy instead.
1adjectiveniggardlyMean and grudging in what is given.
“The settlement was niggardly given what the company had earned.”
niggardly is a quality.
From niggard + -ly.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA
Practised in A Song of Ice and Fire