parsimoniousness

NOUN
  1. extreme care in spending money; reluctance to spend money unnecessarily
  2. extreme stinginess
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How To Use parsimoniousness In A Sentence

  • 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
  • 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
  • In Chinese, the character refers to an animal of the monkey species, and has the connotation of `parsimoniousness.' Languagehat.com: CHINESE 'JEW.'
  • Davison confirmed Cronje's parsimoniousness when, in a revealing aside, he conceded that his teammates had never expected him to buy them a drink.
  • 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
  • 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.
  • That was down to more than military parsimoniousness, he says.
  • 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
  • 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.'
  • 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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