Sentence example with the word 'parsimonious'

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.   [adjective]

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My mother is parsimonious and never tips more than five percent.   [adjective]

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He was not parsimonious, but, as Squire Inchly expressed it, "narrer-minded in money matters."   [Please select]

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He was remarkably temperate in eating and drinking, and parsimonious in his habits.   [Please select]

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The "spirit of the hive" is prudent and thrifty, but by no means parsimonious.   [Please select]

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They say that she was artful, dissembling, parsimonious, jealous, haughty, and masculine.   [Please select]

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Compelled to give to everything, she may have been parsimonious.   [Please select]

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