parsimonious

[US]/ˌpɑːsɪ'məʊnɪəs/
[UK]/ˌpɑrsə'monɪəs/
Frequency: Very High

Translation

adj. excessively frugal

Example Sentences

even the parsimonious Littler paid for drinks all round.

The appropriations committee, suddenly and ill-advisedly parsimonious, cut funds for assistance to the disadvantaged.

She is known for her parsimonious spending habits.

The company's parsimonious approach to employee benefits led to low morale.

His parsimonious nature made him reluctant to splurge on luxury items.

Despite his wealth, he remained parsimonious in his lifestyle.

The parsimonious use of resources helped the organization save money.

Her parsimonious attitude towards electricity usage resulted in lower utility bills.

The government's parsimonious budget allocation left many social programs underfunded.

The parsimonious portions at the restaurant left the customers feeling unsatisfied.

His parsimonious behavior towards tipping the waitstaff was frowned upon.

The parsimonious landlord refused to make any repairs to the rental property.

Real-world Examples

Fiscal policies are also becoming more parsimonious.

Source: The Economist (Summary)

European consumers have also grown less parsimonious amid the pandemic boom in online shopping of all kinds.

Source: The Economist (Summary)

For much of the past decade, tech stocks have been an unattractive proposition to these parsimonious types.

Source: The Economist (Summary)

Where Rhodes appears to have had the more free-wheeling imagination and  speculative drive, Rudd was solid, dependable and parsimonious.

Source: Character Profile

A sober and parsimonious people, who are strangers to all such projects, do not feel that they have occasion for any such concealment.

Source: The Wealth of Nations (Part Five)

England, however, as it has never been blessed with a very parsimonious government, so parsimony has at no time been the characteristic virtue of its inhabitants.

Source: The Wealth of Nations (Part Two)

It is simpler, or more parsimonious, to hypothesize that one feature, the sail, was convergently evolved in Spinosaurus and Ouranosaurus, rather than numerous features being convergent between Spinosaurus and other theropods.

Source: University of Alberta - Dinosaur Paleontology

The orderly, vigilant, and parsimonious administration of such aristocracies as those of Venice and Amsterdam, is extremely proper, it appears from experience, for the management of a mercantile project of this kind.

Source: The Wealth of Nations (Part Five)

But we shall find this to have been the case of almost all nations, in all tolerably quiet and peaceable times, even of those who have not enjoyed the most prudent and parsimonious governments.

Source: The Wealth of Nations (Part Two)

The merchants of London, indeed, have not yet generally become such magnificent lords as those of Cadiz and Lisbon; but neither are they in general such attetitive and parsimonious burghers as those of Amsterdam.

Source: The Wealth of Nations (Part Four)

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