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Meanings of parsimony in inglês

russo
скупость
português
parcimónia
catalão
mesquinesa
espanhol
tacañería

Extreme stinginess.

Related terms
parcimónia
português
parcimónia
catalão
parsimònia

Extreme care in spending money; reluctance to spend money unnecessarily.

parcimónia
catalão
parsimònia

Use of the minimum set of elements required to achieve a goal.

Related terms
parsimònia
Usage of parsimony in inglês
1
Goodness-of-fit, parsimony and robustness under misspecification were used to identify candidate models.
Pubmed
2
About the staging of the play there was a right Shakespearian parsimony.
A Wanderer in Venice
3
Gifts are the last thing you expect after rehearsing for sheer parsimony.
The Guardian
4
But let it be remembered that thrift is not parsimony not miserliness.
Pushing to the Front
5
The shabby plainness of Wren's church well typified all the parochial parsimony.
The Pretty Lady
6
As it was, he sought to veil his parsimony by conservative principle.
The Missing Bride
7
I beg leave to tell him, that mere parsimony is not economy.
Selections from the Speeches and Writings of Edmund Burke
8
Sometimes Hugo used to protest, aghast at some petty act of parsimony.
Half Portions
9
A parsimony-based approach to this problem has been proposed by Oberprieler et al.
Pubmed
10
If so, his father has more to answer for than parsimony.
The Guardian
11
He has the crime of prodigality, and the wretchedness of parsimony.
Boswell's Life of Johnson / Abridged and edited, with an introdu...
12
They now found that in enterprises like theirs, parsimony is the worst profusion.
Critical and Historical Essays — Volume 1
13
For once the rigid parsimony of Frederic seemed to have relaxed.
Critical and Historical Essays — Volume 2
14
How to encourage prudence and economy, and at the same time discourage parsimony.
A Domestic Problem : Work and Culture in the Household
15
But owing to parsimony he takes off his boots when crossing the swamps.
The Knights of the Cross, or, Krzyzacy: Historical Romance
16
Instead, the reasons for rejecting endless parsimony stack up higher and higher instead.
The Guardian
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