Extreme care in spending money; reluctance to spend money unnecessarily.
Use of the minimum set of elements required to achieve a goal.
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 .
6 As it was, he sought to veil his parsimony by conservative principle.
7 I beg leave to tell him, that mere parsimony is not economy.
8 Sometimes Hugo used to protest, aghast at some petty act of parsimony .
9 A parsimony - based approach to this problem has been proposed by Oberprieler et al.
10 If so, his father has more to answer for than parsimony .
11 He has the crime of prodigality, and the wretchedness of parsimony .
12 They now found that in enterprises like theirs, parsimony is the worst profusion.
13 For once the rigid parsimony of Frederic seemed to have relaxed.
14 How to encourage prudence and economy, and at the same time discourage parsimony .
15 But owing to parsimony he takes off his boots when crossing the swamps.
16 Instead, the reasons for rejecting endless parsimony stack up higher and higher instead.
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