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Meanings of closefistedness in English
Extreme reluctance to spend money.
Synonyms
Examples for "meanness"
Examples for "meanness"
1
The life of the cloister is far from the meanness of life.
2
There's a lot of meanness going on in the world, she said.
3
The meanness of regulating our conduct by the opinions of men 186.
4
They are consequent and natural, and our kindness and meanness both manly.
5
These extremes of extravagance and meanness were not unusual in his practice.
1
Goodness-of-fit, parsimony and robustness under misspecification were used to identify candidate models.
2
About the staging of the play there was a right Shakespearian parsimony.
3
Gifts are the last thing you expect after rehearsing for sheer parsimony.
4
But let it be remembered that thrift is not parsimony not miserliness.
5
The shabby plainness of Wren's church well typified all the parochial parsimony.
1
Against the Atlanta Hawks, they unveiled a whole new level of stinginess.
2
And all the thanks I get is to be taunted with stinginess.
3
He has treated me with a stinginess that I never knew equalled.
4
I'm glad, for of all faults I detest stinginess in a child.
5
It's a pity that stinginess is one of the roads to affluence.
1
She was capable of refusal, but not of half-measures or of niggardliness.
2
We must, then, be grateful without niggardliness for the gift of his verse.
3
I was deciding between money and men, between niggardliness and romance.
4
Herdsmen and farmers depended for their livelihood on nature, her niggardliness or generosity.
5
There was no niggardliness in the trade the Vose folks made with Captain Mayo.
1
But let it be remembered that thrift is not parsimony not miserliness.
2
I ought to have seen through your father's affectation of miserliness and indifference.
3
One poor quality the PM does share with the former Labour leader is miserliness.
4
What she had called miserliness was really prudence and thrift and other pleasant-sounding virtues.
5
He wishes to emphasize the cold miserliness of this man.
1
I blushed for this pettiness amid grandeur, and penuriousness surrounded by luxury.
2
Steadily he persisted in what seemed to us a growing penuriousness.
3
He had so often remonstrated with Agatha about her penuriousness as concerned stationery.
4
The thrift of New England did often shrivel into penuriousness.
5
This is enough to make up for any degree of scientific penuriousness or jealousy.
1
Then his new-born scientific ardor seemed to struggle with his rustic costiveness of speech.
2
Laudanum every night, and an opening tincture to obviate costiveness.
3
A cathartic remedy will palliate the costiveness which frequently follows the use of cathartic remedies.
4
The same food that agrees perfectly well with one child will frequently cause costiveness in another.
5
Feed that tends to costiveness should be avoided.