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Extreme reluctance to spend money.
meanness
parsimony
stinginess
niggardliness
miserliness
penuriousness
costiveness
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Examples for "
meanness
"
meanness
parsimony
stinginess
niggardliness
miserliness
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.