Parsimonious is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for PARSIMONIOUS in dictionary:

ADJECTIVE:
• excessively sparing or frugal
• very unwilling to spend money or use resources
• Exhibiting parsimony; sparing in expenditure of money; frugal to excess; penurious; niggardly; stingy.
• excessively unwilling to spend
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• exhibiting or marked by parsimony; frugal to the point of stinginess

Words related to PARSIMONIOUS

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Words that contain PARSIMONIOUS

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How to use PARSIMONIOUS in a sentence

• Besides, a number of the merchants who shipped goods by his boats were conservative and rather approved his keeping the parsimonious rules of the old school.
• Compelled to give to everything, she may have been parsimonious.
• He was remarkably temperate in eating and drinking, and parsimonious in his habits.
• Hitherto reckless of expense, especially in law, she has all at once grown parsimonious to excess.
• Nevertheless, though I have to be thrifty, almost parsimonious, upon this matter, the Council of India and myself will, I am sure, not stint or grudge.
• The only Osborn who bothered about money was his wife, and Alice was parsimonious enough for both.
• Bell had, no doubt, saved something, for he was parsimonious, and was too keen a business man to leave his money in the bank.
• Indeed the most parsimonious could not have avoided it.
• In 1413 Henry died, leaving behind him the record of a fraudulent sovereign who was parsimonious, sour, and superstitious, without virtue or religion.
• He was one of the most parsimonious of kings, and often averted war in order to prevent the wear and tear on the cannon.
• His decent lodging alone costs him a great part of his revenue, and obliges him to be strictly parsimonious of the rest.
• Yet Munden, in later life, was a prudent, parsimonious man.
• If the preceding rulers of the Corporation had been a trifle too parsimonious in the matter of expenditure, Mr.
• At Cambridge I knew an undergraduate who had a somewhat parsimonious pater.
• The fact is, this villain, who is at once cunning and parsimonious, had a double motive, each equally base and diabolical, in sending her here.
• Posterity will say, and it cannot be denied, that our first naval hero was rewarded with too parsimonious a hand.
• There is a harmony, strange but perhaps the result of intention, between the character itself and this reserved or parsimonious method of depicting it.
• Everybody agrees that they could have been won over had the parsimonious old emperor made the least display of generosity.
• He is as heedless, gay, and prodigal of his poetical wealth, as the other is careful, reserved, and parsimonious.
• He compared it then to an opal or a sapphire, which shine with the same parsimonious radiance.
• There was in this something certainly of profusion compared with the parsimonious and mean habits of our time.
• The habitant watches their taxation with a parsimonious scrutiny and it is a thankless task to carry on their work.
• There is no good reason why any town in Massachusetts should be negligent or parsimonious in these particulars.
• In this remark, a stinted and parsimonious spirit is not suggested.
• For his magnificent presents, his gorgeous works on the structure of his church, were made possible by his own simple, almost parsimonious manner of living.
• We had much merriment one day on a fishing excursion at the expense of a parsimonious member of our crew.
• Having held several lucrative situations for many years, and, although not parsimonious, being very prudent in money concerns, he had amassed a very large fortune.
• You think me rather parsimonious, don’t you? That’s because I don’t care to leave you the means of corrupting your jailers.
• Parsimonious as his father was, he was anxious that his only boy should appear to advantage.
• He was not parsimonious and he was not omnipresent.
• The parsimonious habits, the money-getting precepts, the wary cunning, the little scruple about means, the fixed intent upon the end, of Dr.
• The parsimonious Elizabeth was always slyly willing to receive the proceeds of his dashing deeds, but never unduly generous in fixing his share of them.
• No such bargain, at a distance, with a reserved and parsimonious monarch, was likely, therefore, to have been concluded.

Similar words containing PARSIMONIOU without suffix s

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