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Significados de penuriousness em inglês
Extreme reluctance to spend money.
Sinônimos
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
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
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.
Uso de penuriousness em inglês
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.
6
All this spoke, not of poverty, but of sordid penuriousness.
7
As it is, it seems to me he has no excuse for his extreme penuriousness.
8
What others would have accepted as penuriousness she recognized as a sense of well-balanced justice.
9
His penuriousness was as remarkable as his taste.
10
Meantime, things were becoming very serious; with all his penuriousness, he had arrived at his last half-sovereign.
11
His frugality, bordering upon penuriousness, impressed contemporaries.
12
It is altogether different from penuriousness: for it is economy that can always best afford to be generous.
13
The one made them rather poorer than richer; the other brought upon them a growing habit of penuriousness, gloom and irritability.
14
It is France's penuriousness and meanness and her exaggerated thrift that stands most in the way of her material greatness now.
15
There are other persons who, though they cannot in all cases be censured for penuriousness, have imbibed a very pernicious error.
16
It is not penuriousness, as some of the boys may think-itis poverty that prevents me from attiring myself more becomingly.
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