Extreme reluctance to spend money.
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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 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.
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.
6 But miserliness or avariciousness is a different thing from economy.
7 This customary jest about the servant's miserliness made him laugh.
8 The doctor's miserliness was not mere talk; it was real, and it had an object.
9 Now some sins are contraries, as wastefulness and miserliness .
10 Or is it the very meanest miserliness , that he may keep you all to himself?
11 Hence by sinning with the vice of wastefulness he is freed from the sin of miserliness .
12 He is vulnerable to reason there-alwaysa few grains of common-sensein an ounce of miserliness .
13 But then, old Jacob Patterson was noted as much for his surliness as for his miserliness .
14 Therefore, let Desire, cupidity, thirst, miserliness avoid me.
15 So it was not miserliness ; it was just a peculiarity, a curious attention to a trifling detail.
16 I won't say any more, except that all the miserliness in the world was in this man.
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