We are using cookies
This website uses cookies in order to offer you the most relevant information. By browsing this website, you accept these cookies.
This website uses cookies in order to offer you the most relevant information. By browsing this website, you accept these cookies.
Did you know?
You can double click on a word to look it up on TermGallery.
You can double click on a word to look it up on TermGallery.
Meanings of tightfistedness in English
Portuguese
parcimónia Catalan
mesquinesa Extreme stinginess.
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
But that very closeness has given rise to new dangers, he said.
2
It shows a new closeness forming between BBC news and the public.
3
Of course the closeness of small towns can provide healing moments too.
4
What about her dangerous closeness to Lord Melbourne, her first Prime Minister?
5
Others look dimly on Blanco's closeness to free-trade deals outside the WTO.
1
Gasoline gained on regional supply tightness in the key East Coast market.
2
Improvements include full insulation, double glazing, improved air-tightness, ventilation and new heating.
3
Lakers reserve guard Alex Caruso left the contest with right calf tightness.
4
There is no such sense of strain and tightness in the atmosphere.
5
He left the game early on Wednesday with tightness in his back.
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
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
Persons unacquainted with the psychology of parsimoniousness may hesitate to credit this incident.
2
He lived economically, as he had always done, even to parsimoniousness.
3
Wealth, you will observe, was inclining Johnny toward parsimoniousness.
4
You see, his precarious position was as well known as were his extravagant tastes and the obstinate parsimoniousness of M. Mosenstein.
5
For the disease process considered in our case study, the semi-Markov model thus provided a sensible balance between model parsimoniousness and computational complexity.
1
I won't retaliate for your thundering niggardness five years ago, when you would not even be my best man, do you remember?
Usage of tightfistedness in English
1
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.