If it’s so bad, why are you afraid to use it?
“Niggard” redirects here. For parsimonious people, see Miser.
In the United States, there have been several controversies involving the misunderstanding of the word niggardly, an adjective meaning “stingy” or “miserly”, because of its phonetic similarity to nigger, an ethnic slur used against black people. Although the two words are etymologically unrelated, niggard is nonetheless often replaced with a synonym. People have faced misplaced backlash for using the word.
How the word was shortened the wrong way.