How To Use Parsimonious In A Sentence
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The chicken and pistachio shish, made with cardamom, honey and green chilli, was parsimonious and too dry.
Times, Sunday Times
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parsimonious thrift relieved by few generous impulses
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This is a man whose life and soul are lit up by a single naked light bulb that he parsimoniously carries between office and home.
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This file will not be available indefinitely - I am far too parsimonious with webspace for that.
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With the fare on offer here it is not easy not to feel dejected, even sad that the directors have been so parsimonious with their offerings to kids.
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Britain, along with Italy, France and Germany, comes in the middle of the tipping league, neither profligate nor parsimonious.
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The ancestral metazoan gene structure gives the most parsimonious derivation of its descendant genes.
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What slows e-government up is a parsimonious culture, for which IT can only be invested in if it saves the Treasury money.
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Laura was not mean but she was parsimonious, in the way of the war generation.
THE IMAGE OF LAURA
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His parsimonious ways have cost him more than a few friends and several famous girlfriends.
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It seems that the judges were rather parsimonious with their scores, but by giving her the highest scores, it was clear that she was their pick for the title.
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She's too parsimonious to heat the house properly.
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So you long to fulfill yourself through sexual attraction to others and, in doing so, add complex dimension to your marriage in a way that humanity-squelching, emotionally parsimonious Americans dare not?
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You know, I mean, there seems to be this thing that the coverage is being parceled out in a rather parsimonious way.
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They already possess the most parsimonious defence in the division.
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We know whether we have to do with a gentleman or a cad, and whether his subsequent parsimoniousness is caused by cussedness or simply ignorance of the customs of such establishments, and we treat him in consequence.
The Idler Magazine, Volume III., July 1893 An Illustrated Monthly
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Combined with his glumly parsimonious economic message, this social pessimism now makes him seem unappealingly bitter and recriminatory.
Give the voters hope
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But the declines also point out the parsimonious nature of the cash-free offer.
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A single most parsimonious cladogram was recovered for the ‘archaic’ subset with a topology identical to that seen in all of the MMPC.
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England, however, as it has never been blessed with a very parsimonious government, so parsimony has at no time been the characteristical virtue of its inhabitants.
Pension Bagholders, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
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And, like many such mothers, she was not parsimonious with the cherished one's talents.
MR GOLIGHTLY'S HOLIDAY
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Our approach is niggardly, grudging and parsimonious.
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Hay puts the churchiness down to the type of people who wanted to get ahead, although the parsimoniousness of Hay the elder perhaps encouraged self-help.
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A fellow who "skinned his flint" was looked upon as being a parsimonious, penny-pinching, stingy cheapskate — a veritable skinflint. ramrod A ramrod is a rod of wood or metal for ramming the ball and patch down the barrel of a muzzleloading firearm and setting them against the main powder charge.
VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol XV No 1
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I was good and parsimonious and did the job myself, saving the money I didn't spend on cleaners to help pay the builders.
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Staff members, while lamenting Fay's legendary parsimoniousness, praise his evenhandedness and juggling of the three key constituencies of the USGA: the staff, the Executive Committee and the past presidents.
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Dan Bloom quotes Chien Hsi-chieh as saying that the character in question has a connotation of parsimoniousness.
Languagehat.com: CHINESE 'JEW.'
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Also, using graduate students to pursue industrial problems in a university is a cheap way for parsimonious companies to do research.
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Finally, it's worth noting that ideographic scripts like Chinese and Japanese tend to be parsimonious with characters compared to alphabetic scripts like Latin and Cyrillic.
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Being a poor man, filling a place fit only for rich men, he had been driven to think of money, and had become self-denying and parsimonious - perhaps we may say hungry and close-fisted.
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An article by Dan Bloom reports on a controversy over the way 'Jew' is written in Chinese:There are many Chinese characters for 'you-tai,' or Jew, but the combination that is currently being used refers to an animal of the monkey species, and has the connotation of parsimoniousness, Chien Hsi-chieh, director of the Peacetime Foundation of Taiwan, said recently...
Languagehat.com: CHINESE 'JEW.'
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For a side that prides itself on its parsimonious nature, the case for the defence was frankly indefensible.
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So you long to fulfill yourself through sexual attraction to others and, in doing so, add complex dimension to your marriage in a way that humanity-squelching, emotionally parsimonious Americans dare not?
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Never fear, my little chickadees; Aunty Jane has even the most parsimonious among you covered.
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He was parsimonious, boorish and foul-tempered.
Times, Sunday Times
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Evan chose his pigments and applied his paints parsimoniously.
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It is parsimonious representation of a possibly complex thing.
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And the Australian who has made it his summer residence finds the locals anything but parsimonious.
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`Excellent pastry, but parsimonious with the kidneys," Control observed.
A SONG AT TWILIGHT
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Ironically, they resemble more than anything a George Graham team: parsimonious, ruthless and pragmatic.
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Davison confirmed Cronje's parsimoniousness when, in a revealing aside, he conceded that his teammates had never expected him to buy them a drink.
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`Excellent pastry, but parsimonious with the kidneys," Control observed.
A SONG AT TWILIGHT
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That's unlikely to happen unless the family fortune is huge or the beneficiaries are parsimonious.
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Laura was not mean but she was parsimonious, in the way of the war generation.
THE IMAGE OF LAURA
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An assertion that differentiation is a more parsimonious interpretation of phylogenetic patterns than is concrescence, as argued by the odontode regulation theory, implies certainty and data where there are none.
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But at the hotel, pitcher Jim Bouton was dumbfounded: "This was the first time he could ever remember their parsimoniousness outweighing their arrogance.
The End Of A Dynasty
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Consensus trees should be interpreted with care as they may not be the most parsimonious hypotheses suggested by the data.
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As you see from the little cladogram I’ve knocked up here [click for larger version], bat diphyly and archontan monophyly makes it at least possible – and phylogenetically parsimonious – that flight was primitive for the megabat-primate clade, or in other words that primates are secondarily flightless.
Archive 2006-08-01
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She's too parsimonious to heat the house properly.
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He puts Scotland's success in the sector down to its parsimonious reputation.
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In Chinese, the character refers to an animal of the monkey species, and has the connotation of `parsimoniousness.'
Languagehat.com: CHINESE 'JEW.'
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A heuristic search was carried out to find the most parsimonious tree (s).
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I willingly grant to you that some women are so wealthy, placed in situations requiring so much representation, that it would be degrading to them to take much thought about any thing but the beauty and fashion of their clothes; and that an anxiety on their part about the preservation of, to them, trifles would indicate meanness and parsimoniousness.
The Young Lady's Mentor A Guide to the Formation of Character. In a Series of Letters to Her Unknown Friends
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The subsequent "New Chapter" and the Future Capabilities reforms were undermined by the military's unexpectedly high operational tempo and the Treasury's parsimoniousness.
Gordon Brown, Charlie Whelan and Me
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That was down to more than military parsimoniousness, he says.
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Rather, it appears that the connotation of parsimoniousness has become attached to the word "youtai" perhaps more than simply "you" through its use in translations of Western-language sources that used the word "Jew" in the same casually derogatory way.
Languagehat.com: CHINESE 'JEW.'
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God is extravagant not parsimonious: in his extravagance, he created a home for us that will always contain an unexplored corner, however long he tarries.
When Aslan sang « Anglican Samizdat
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There is another, parsimonious explanation that escapes many would be subtle minds.
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Some treatments produce more health gain than others, and some entail more parsimonious use of resources.
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Instead, the most parsimonious interpretation is that the sellate sclerites were probably imbricated in anterior-posterior rows.
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His approach is broadly nominalistic, but Buridan's nominalism is more of a parsimonious way of doing philosophy than a doctrine about universals.
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Our speaker was born in Kaslo, B. C., in 1895, graduated from the University of Toronto in 1915, then joined the 54th Kootenay Battalion as a second lieutenant and served overseas (where it is recorded that his men grumbled about his parsimoniousness with the rum rations), returned as a staff captain, graduated from Osgoode Hall in 1920 and was called to the bar in British Columbia in 1922.
Canada in World Affairs
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The fact that the parsimonious queen subbed him no less than £58,000 between 1586 and 1603 suggests tacit acceptance.
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In this analysis, such is not the case; the Adams consensus produces a topology that is identical to one of the 24 most parsimonious trees.
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Lots of people have called our response to the Tsunami ‘extraordinarily generous’ but its only really extraordinary when compared with the usual parsimoniousness on foreign aid.
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This file will not be available indefinitely - I am far too parsimonious with webspace for that.
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It is parsimonious representation of a possibly complex thing.
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And, like many such mothers, she was not parsimonious with the cherished one's talents.
MR GOLIGHTLY'S HOLIDAY
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Its lure to one's vanity and bank account can seduce even the most parsimonious print personality.
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This team was apparently built around a defense that was parsimonious to the extreme, and now it's gone a bit leaky.
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This is an odd pairing of devices in one person, the narrative eye and the devil: it's too parsimonious.
