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parsimoniously

/pahr-suh-moh-nee-uhs/US // ˌpɑr səˈmoʊ ni əs //

吝啬的说,吝啬地,吝啬的,谨慎地

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Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : characterized by or showing parsimony; frugal or stingy.

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Examples

  • 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.

  • Did they think that the cross, given hitherto so parsimoniously to civilians, was not meant for the police?

  • Isolated in its narrow chamber, each grub nibbles the substance around it, peacefully and parsimoniously.