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parsimonious
abstemious, cheeseparing, exiguous, labor-saving, money-saving, penny-wise and pound-foolish, saving, scrimping, slight, stingy, thin, unwasteful
Definition
adj.
excessively unwilling to spend
Last update: February 7, 2017
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To save money, the
parsimonious
old man always bought used clothes.
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My mother is
parsimonious
and never tips more than five percent.
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He was not
parsimonious
, but, as Squire Inchly expressed it, "narrer-minded in money matters."
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He was remarkably temperate in eating and drinking, and
parsimonious
in his habits.
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The "spirit of the hive" is prudent and thrifty, but by no means
parsimonious
.
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They say that she was artful, dissembling,
parsimonious
, jealous, haughty, and masculine.
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Compelled to give to everything, she may have been
parsimonious
.
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