Frugal

//ˈfɹuːɡəl//

"Frugal" in a Sentence (16 examples)

Germans are a frugal people.

It is all very well to be frugal; but he goes too far.

Though he is fairly well off, he is frugal; he takes after his father in that respect.

He is very frugal, not to say stingy.

He is frugal, to say the least of it.

He is not frugal so you can't trust him with money.

She is very frugal, not to say stingy.

She is frugal, not to say stingy.

There's a fine line between being frugal and being cheap.

He is very frugal, but not stingy.

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frugal advice

By what a frugal man annually saves, he not only affords maintenance to an additional number of productive hands, for that or the ensuing year, but [also] establishes as it were a perpetual fund for the maintenance of an equal number in all times to come.

frugal fortune; frugal fare

frugal breakfast

[…] a frugal meal, which consisted of roots and tea,[…]

Pinching and paring he might furnish forth / A frugal board, bare sustenance, no more,[…]

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