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
Wimpy was a mild-mannered, soft-spoken, lazy, parsimonious, and utterly gluttonous hamburger-wolfing straight man to Popeye.
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Richard Lederer, San Diego Union-Tribune, 19 July 2025
Both parsimonious tenets are measurable, explainable and actionable.
—Noah Barsky, Forbes.com, 25 June 2025
If the physical action is doled out in parsimonious bites, the verbal action is an extravagant feast of double helpings.
—Justin Chang, The New Yorker, 12 Mar. 2025
The parsimonious publics of the United States and other democracies, on the other hand, would prevent their governments from expending the necessary resources to resist Beijing’s efforts to undermine a boycott.
—Dawn Brancati, Foreign Affairs, 25 Mar. 2021
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for parsimonious
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Como had been neck-and-neck with Roma’s miserly backline before shipping four at Inter last Saturday, a chastening defeat that ended an unbeaten run stretching back to the end of August.—
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In this version, miserly Madame Eleanor is visited by the ghost former business partner Jacob Marley as well as a few other apparitions.—
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Freedom and rule of law were defended last night, but dictators will try to exploit this to rationalize their selfish objectives.—
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Even though a lot of what happens in the book borders on the ridiculous because of the behavior of narcissistic selfish venal individuals.—
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Carrey portrays Ebenezer Scrooge, a cantankerous, greedy old man visited by three ghosts on Christmas Eve who show him the error of his ways.—
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The turning point in this contest, though, came when the Chiefs decided to get greedy on fourth-and-1 from their own 31-yard line.—
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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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Loveland caught eight passes for 137 yards for the Bears, who had closed the regular season with tight losses to San Francisco and Detroit.—
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As temperatures drop and humidity plummets, the skin’s natural moisture levels decline faster, fine lines look more pronounced, and that tight, uncomfortable feeling can become a near-daily occurrence.—
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The Heat’s offense struggled to generate quality looks against the Timberwolves’ stingy defense, especially in half-court situations.—
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Charlotte shot 53 percent (19-for-37 from 3, 51 percent) against OKC’s usually stingy defense.—
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No one wants to disappoint their child or be seen as ungenerous.—
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Unkindness and people being ungenerous.—
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But both are gone because neither could make magic of Sherman’s low-spending model that still includes the most penurious payroll in MLB in 2025.—
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Even so, the general picture of a mother’s absence and a daughter’s understandable resentment at having had to pick up the maternal slack in penurious conditions comes through loud and clear.—
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“Parsimonious.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/parsimonious. Accessed 13 Jan. 2026.
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