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parsimoniousness

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

吝啬的人,吝啬鬼,吝啬症,吝啬的态度

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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

  • Giving people money is “the most direct and parsimonious way to eliminate poverty,” Darrick Hamilton, the director of the institute and one of the authors of the plan, told Vox.

  • To the authors of “Proximal Origins,” these similar viruses offered “strong” and “parsimonious” evidence for natural emergence.

  • It promises to be a parsimonious solution to the age-old problem of preventing unwanted pregnancies.

  • The wealthy want to be seen as even more parsimonious, to offset the incriminating millions in their bank accounts.

  • Does anyone else remember a simpler, more parsimonious America?

  • Over the course of these novels, the style becomes increasingly parsimonious, reaching its apotheosis in The Golden Bowl.

  • The U.S. will never be as parsimonious with energy as a Scandinavian country.

  • A miser having heard of another still more parsimonious than himself, waited on him to gain instruction.

  • There is no good reason why any town in Massachusetts should be negligent or parsimonious in these particulars.

  • Worldly fame has been parsimonious of her favor to the memory of those generous companions.

  • Cadaverous, simply because he was too parsimonious to provide sufficient nourishing food to meet the demands of such a huge body.

  • They know, I can tell you, and they despise parsimonious people who try to make their old things do forever.