parsimonious
adjective
characterized by or showing parsimony; frugal or stingy.
parsimoniously
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a word derived from
parsimonious.
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a word derived from
parsimony.
Example Sentences
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Congress has responded to the State Department’s program parsimoniously, allocating the special visas piecemeal through its annual defense policy bill.
From New York Times ● Aug. 9, 2016
Some people wield them parsimoniously; others dole them out willy-nilly.
From The New Yorker ● Jan. 5, 2015
Joy—in movies, in conversation, in language, in life—was not something that Roger Ebert meted out parsimoniously.
From Slate ● Apr. 5, 2013
In July 2009, Microsoft unveiled Windows 7, a product widely acclaimed as absolving Vista's sins, and Sinofsky is promoted to president of the Windows division, a title parsimoniously bestowed.
From The Guardian ● Nov. 19, 2012
The number of troops already in his service was as great as his revenue, though large beyond all precedent and though parsimoniously administered, would support.
From The History of England, from the Accession of James II — Volume 2 by Thomas Babington Macaulay, Baron Macaulay
