Parsimonious

//pɑɹ.sɪˈmoʊ.ni.əs//

"Parsimonious" in a Sentence (10 examples)

She was so parsimonious; she only bought vegetables if they were on sale.

The massive donation meant that the foundation no longer needed to be so parsimonious with salaries.

The waitress' service was so good, that even the parsimonious scrooge felt the need to leave a generous tip.

He's a parsimonious soul, always looking to find a good deal.

The parsimonious patron spent aeons haggling with the clerk.

He was regular in his habits, parsimonious, and industrious; but he lacked all talent needed at the bar—he had neither address, nor eloquence, nor ingenuity.

Our fathers would have an economical government, even if grand people called it a parsimonious one, and taxes should be no greater than were absolutely necessary to pay for such a government.

The first three college-savings plans stand out for their parsimonious expenses […]

Statistical methods offer the ability to enforce parsimonious selection of the most influential potential predictors of each gene's state.

They played like a team that was in a hurry to get back to the Premier League. Norwich City had dismantled the most parsimonious defence in the Championship inside the opening quarter of an hour and at the final whistle it was the yellow end, rather than Middlesbrough’s banks of red, where the euphoria could be found.

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