parsimonious

It is more parsimonious to suppose that we and these animals do the same thing and can therefore perform amazing feats of creativity and generalization.

Many of our denominational colleges are parsimoniously sustained.

He found at his accession a costly, although parsimoniously arranged system of government, and a moderately filled State Treasury.

The emperor parsimoniously refused to his soldiers the sums which he granted with a lavish and trembling hand to the Barbarians.