Crossword-Solution: PARSIMONY
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Parsimony | n. | Closeness or sparingness in the expenditure of money; -- generally in a bad sense; excessive frugality; niggardliness. |
We have 15 clues for the answer “PARSIMONY”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Extreme stinginess | 1 answer |
| Mental or fiscal tightness | 1 answer |
| Scrooge's trait once | 1 answer |
| Trait of Scrooge | 1 answer |
| extreme care in spending money | 1 answer |
| niggardliness | 1 answer |
| stinginess | 3 answers |
| CHEESEPARING | 5 answers |
| Frugality | 6 answers |
| Thrift | 6 answers |
| meanness | 9 answers |
| ASK AN UNREASONABLE PRICE | 10 answers |
| Penny-pinching | 10 answers |
| Avarice | 21 answers |
| Economy | 24 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
RETAE
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with PARSIMONY (5)
Even when I took command, she was fit only for the junk pile; but the world-old parsimony of government retained her in active service, and sent two hundred men to sea in her, with myself, a mere boy, in command of her, to patrol thirty from Iceland to the Azores.
Parsimony of pain, glut of pleasure, these are the two alternating ends of youth; and Archie was of the parsimonious.
This is illustrated by many ancient Scandinavian weapons in the museum at Copenhagen, which indicate the greatest parsimony in the use of steel at a period when both gold and copper appear to have been comparatively abundant.
There is a law of parsimony for the construction of historical documents; simplicity is the first duty of narration; and hanged they were.
Parsimony is one of the best, and yet is not innocent; for it withholdeth men from works of liberality and charity.
Quotes with PARSIMONY (3)
The mentally disturbed do not employ the Principle of Scientific Parsimony: the most simple theory to explain a given set of facts. They shoot for the baroque.
Mere parsimony is not economy . . . expense and great expense may be an essential part of true economy.
If time is money, it seems moral to save time, above all one's own, and such parsimony is excused by consideration for others. One is straight-forward.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: NYT, Universal.
Used 4 times in crossword archives (1971–2021).