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parcimónia Catalan
mesquinesa Extreme stinginess.
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The life of the cloister is far from the meanness of life.
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There's a lot of meanness going on in the world, she said.
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The meanness of regulating our conduct by the opinions of men 186.
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They are consequent and natural, and our kindness and meanness both manly.
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These extremes of extravagance and meanness were not unusual in his practice.
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But that very closeness has given rise to new dangers, he said.
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It shows a new closeness forming between BBC news and the public.
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Of course the closeness of small towns can provide healing moments too.
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What about her dangerous closeness to Lord Melbourne, her first Prime Minister?
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Others look dimly on Blanco's closeness to free-trade deals outside the WTO.
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Gasoline gained on regional supply tightness in the key East Coast market.
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Improvements include full insulation, double glazing, improved air-tightness, ventilation and new heating.
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Lakers reserve guard Alex Caruso left the contest with right calf tightness.
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There is no such sense of strain and tightness in the atmosphere.
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He left the game early on Wednesday with tightness in his back.
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Goodness-of-fit, parsimony and robustness under misspecification were used to identify candidate models.
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About the staging of the play there was a right Shakespearian parsimony.
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Gifts are the last thing you expect after rehearsing for sheer parsimony.
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But let it be remembered that thrift is not parsimony not miserliness.
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The shabby plainness of Wren's church well typified all the parochial parsimony.
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She was capable of refusal, but not of half-measures or of niggardliness.
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We must, then, be grateful without niggardliness for the gift of his verse.
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I was deciding between money and men, between niggardliness and romance.
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Herdsmen and farmers depended for their livelihood on nature, her niggardliness or generosity.
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There was no niggardliness in the trade the Vose folks made with Captain Mayo.
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Persons unacquainted with the psychology of parsimoniousness may hesitate to credit this incident.
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He lived economically, as he had always done, even to parsimoniousness.
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Wealth, you will observe, was inclining Johnny toward parsimoniousness.
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You see, his precarious position was as well known as were his extravagant tastes and the obstinate parsimoniousness of M. Mosenstein.
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For the disease process considered in our case study, the semi-Markov model thus provided a sensible balance between model parsimoniousness and computational complexity.
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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.
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I won't retaliate for your thundering niggardness five years ago, when you would not even be my best man, do you remember?