as in miserly
giving or sharing as little as possible
a parsimonious woman who insists that charity begins—and ends—at home
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Recent Examples of parsimonious
The latter offers a more judicious form of clemency, but only on a parsimonious, individual basis.
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Bernadette Meyler,
Harpers Magazine,
27 Jan. 2026
But German defense outlays were notoriously parsimonious, and fast growth seemed improbable.
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Gerry Doyle,
Bloomberg,
27 Jan. 2026
The eye, though, is much more parsimonious, focusing its attention only on a small part of the visual scene at any one time—namely, the part of the scene that changes, like the fluttering of a leaf or a golf ball splashing into water.
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Christoph Posch,
IEEE Spectrum,
26 Nov. 2025
Chelsea are famously parsimonious in the transfer market, after all.
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Phil Hay,
New York Times,
21 Aug. 2025
See All Example Sentences for parsimonious
Bernadette Meyler,
Harpers Magazine,
27 Jan. 2026
But German defense outlays were notoriously parsimonious, and fast growth seemed improbable.
—
Gerry Doyle,
Bloomberg,
27 Jan. 2026
The eye, though, is much more parsimonious, focusing its attention only on a small part of the visual scene at any one time—namely, the part of the scene that changes, like the fluttering of a leaf or a golf ball splashing into water.
—
Christoph Posch,
IEEE Spectrum,
26 Nov. 2025
Chelsea are famously parsimonious in the transfer market, after all.
—
Phil Hay,
New York Times,
21 Aug. 2025
See All Example Sentences for parsimonious
Recent Examples of Synonyms for parsimonious
Adjective
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Koenig’s former Yankees teammates were contemptuous of that miserly decision.
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The film is set in Mumbai and built around a miserly protagonist whose circumstances spiral into escalating absurdity.
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Across 15 tracks, the rapper and producer get to work making their first proper body of work together as memorable as expected, delving into relationship mishaps, selfish tendencies, and the absurdist comedy that is real life.
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Politics, Lander said, didn’t have to be a selfish endeavor driven by ego.
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The Sudanese conflict has conscripted the neighboring countries who are selfishly courting either faction for resources or political standing, as well as greedy, exploitative foreign powers who repeatedly leverage religious and cultural tensions in the region, into the fight for profit.
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Next to him were Brad Lander, Darializa Avila Chevalier and Claire Valdez, all left-leaning candidates running on a platform that includes abolishing Immigration and Customs Enforcement and taking on bad landlords and greedy corporations.
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Every year, a complacent, tightfisted city council turned down the recommendations.
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Kotick played the tightfisted owner of the Oakland A’s.
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With life spent largely on transit, navigating tight layovers, and using their days off to jet-set across the globe, flight attendants have mastered the art of packing.
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Polls overall anticipate a tight race, including a June 19 survey by the news site Zeteo showing DeGette trailing Kiros 41% to 36%.
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Royce Lewis and Victor Caratini hit back-to-back homers, Zebby Matthews pitched seven stingy innings and the Minnesota Twins held off a late rally by the Houston Astros for a 5-4 victory Monday night.
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Argentina having one of the game’s greatest strikers ever, depth and a stingy defense is enough to make the squad a good bet to make another deep run.
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Suzanne’s ungenerous view of herself is one of many misperceptions that will be overturned—some gently, some not.
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Here’s the resulting exchange: RC Women writers frequently adopt a tone or an attitude toward their female characters which is somewhat negative and ungenerous.
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There’s a cast of wanderers, visionaries, and itinerants, the self-educated and self-published, a long lineage of cranks and outcasts, mostly penurious, always opinionated, stretching away into the mists of pseudohistory.
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Then the usually penurious Indians suddenly splurged.
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“Parsimonious.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/parsimonious. Accessed 30 Jun. 2026.
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