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Meanings of parsimonious in English

Excessively unwilling to spend.

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        1
        In the main, Sophia had been careful, and had even been parsimonious.
        The Old Wives' Tale
        2
        They subdue all the romantic tendencies I am so parsimonious about wasting.
        A Fool and His Money
        3
        The French kings were parsimonious except when lavishing money on their vices.
        Great Italian and French Composers
        4
        Hawkins was as mean and parsimonious as he was pompous and conceited.
        Oliver Goldsmith: A Biography
        5
        This amount was certainly not colossal, while the conditions were sufficiently parsimonious.
        The Rise of the Dutch Republic — Volume 27: 1577-78
        6
        At Cambridge I knew an undergraduate who had a somewhat parsimonious pater.
        A Tale of One City: the New Birmingham / Papers Reprinted from t...
        7
        A parsimonious man, Dimitri had wasted no money on the shrine's upkeep.
        Secret of the Dragon
        8
        He is not parsimonious, but his instincts and habits have been prudent.
        Floyd Grandon's Honor
        9
        He would never ask her to be parsimonious,-nevereven to be economical.
        The Prime Minister
        10
        Why consume our days in seeking scattered fruits from a parsimonious soil?
        The Ruins; Or, Meditation on the Revolutions of Empires and the ...
        11
        They say that she was artful, dissembling, parsimonious, jealous, haughty, and masculine.
        Beacon Lights of History, Volume 08: Great Rulers
        12
        A well-formed mouth that, if not generous, was by no means parsimonious.
        Burglars can't be choosers
        13
        The comparatively-parsimonious new budget gave an excuse to get rid of those projects.
        Wired
        14
        Variable selection is often used to produce more robust and parsimonious regression models.
        Pubmed
        15
        He was parsimonious; he was avaricious; he was easily put out of temper.
        A History of the Four Georges, Volume I
        16
        He was remarkably temperate in eating and drinking, and parsimonious in his habits.
        Beacon Lights of History, Volume 07: Great Women
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