[tjr]

"Niggardly" is a rather uncommonly used word, though. One of our city officials used "niggardly" in a public event a few months ago, and a bunch of people got in an uproar. Were those people ignorant about this word? Yes. Would it have been better for the city official to have avoided it? I think so. Not every instance of language use is necessarily an opportune moment to enhance the vocabulary of others.

That said, I would like to think that on this particular forum such concerns ought to be minimal, at best.