Meanings of meanness in English

Gasoline gained on regional supply tightness in the key East Coast market.

Improvements include full insulation, double glazing, improved air-tightness, ventilation and new heating.

Lakers reserve guard Alex Caruso left the contest with right calf tightness.

There is no such sense of strain and tightness in the atmosphere.

He left the game early on Wednesday with tightness in his back.

Goodness-of-fit, parsimony and robustness under misspecification were used to identify candidate models.

About the staging of the play there was a right Shakespearian parsimony.

Gifts are the last thing you expect after rehearsing for sheer parsimony.

But let it be remembered that thrift is not parsimony not miserliness.

The shabby plainness of Wren's church well typified all the parochial parsimony.

Against the Atlanta Hawks, they unveiled a whole new level of stinginess.

And all the thanks I get is to be taunted with stinginess.

He has treated me with a stinginess that I never knew equalled.

I'm glad, for of all faults I detest stinginess in a child.

It's a pity that stinginess is one of the roads to affluence.

She was capable of refusal, but not of half-measures or of niggardliness.

We must, then, be grateful without niggardliness for the gift of his verse.

I was deciding between money and men, between niggardliness and romance.

Herdsmen and farmers depended for their livelihood on nature, her niggardliness or generosity.

There was no niggardliness in the trade the Vose folks made with Captain Mayo.

But let it be remembered that thrift is not parsimony not miserliness.

I ought to have seen through your father's affectation of miserliness and indifference.

One poor quality the PM does share with the former Labour leader is miserliness.

What she had called miserliness was really prudence and thrift and other pleasant-sounding virtues.

He wishes to emphasize the cold miserliness of this man.

I blushed for this pettiness amid grandeur, and penuriousness surrounded by luxury.

Steadily he persisted in what seemed to us a growing penuriousness.

He had so often remonstrated with Agatha about her penuriousness as concerned stationery.

The thrift of New England did often shrivel into penuriousness.

This is enough to make up for any degree of scientific penuriousness or jealousy.

Then his new-born scientific ardor seemed to struggle with his rustic costiveness of speech.

Laudanum every night, and an opening tincture to obviate costiveness.

A cathartic remedy will palliate the costiveness which frequently follows the use of cathartic remedies.

The same food that agrees perfectly well with one child will frequently cause costiveness in another.

Feed that tends to costiveness should be avoided.

Persons unacquainted with the psychology of parsimoniousness may hesitate to credit this incident.

He lived economically, as he had always done, even to parsimoniousness.

Wealth, you will observe, was inclining Johnny toward parsimoniousness.

You see, his precarious position was as well known as were his extravagant tastes and the obstinate parsimoniousness of M. Mosenstein.

For the disease process considered in our case study, the semi-Markov model thus provided a sensible balance between model parsimoniousness and computational complexity.

I won't retaliate for your thundering niggardness five years ago, when you would not even be my best man, do you remember?

Even where ASL-backed officials were in the majority, dry passions were usually not as intense as the tightfistedness that shaped the era's fiscal policies.