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UK
/fɹˈuːɡəl/
]
[ US /ˈfɹuɡəɫ/ ]
[ US /ˈfɹuɡəɫ/ ]
ADJECTIVE
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avoiding waste
sparing in their use of heat and light
an economical shopper
a frugal lunch
`scotch' is used only informally
a frugal farmer
thrifty because they remember the great Depression
an economical meal
stinting in bestowing gifts
a sparing father and a spending son
How To Use frugal In A Sentence
- Nakamura even gives them a bit of an Odd Couple twist: Buddha is frugal and kind of uptight; Jesus goes with the flow. License request day: Saint Young Men
- Industry is fortune’s right hand, and frugality her left.
- The term frugality has been so perverted that it now means 'No, no, no' to everyone, whether it's shoes or lattes or travel," he said. NYT > Home Page
- Do the economics of downshifting to a more frugal car stack up? Times, Sunday Times
- In order to realize the target of the group 'frugalness economic, green Environmental Conservation, modern style system, innovative management' .
- Chef Tony Says: Be frugal! Use the yucky orange-colored oil when cooking for children or those with a severe head cold.
- Its "proverbial sentences, chiefly such as inculcated industry and frugality as the means of procuring wealth and thereby securing virtue," were sown like seed all over the land. Benjamin Franklin
- It turns out that the bulk of the world's millionaires, for example, are surprisingly frugal.
- Both are at one with a certain instinct of frugality, by which I do not mean meanness.
- And what should go in a frugal person's batterie de cuisine? Frugal food