Crossword-Solution: PARSIMONIOUS
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Parsimonious | a. | Exhibiting parsimony; sparing in expenditure of money; frugal to excess; penurious; niggardly; stingy. |
We have 43 clues for the answer “PARSIMONIOUS”
| Clue | Answers |
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| penny pinching | 1 answer |
| Penny-pinching | 10 answers |
| Niggardly | 18 answers |
| raptorial | 27 answers |
| Plundering. | 27 answers |
| hawklike | 28 answers |
| ravening | 28 answers |
| ravaging | 29 answers |
| grabbing | 29 answers |
| predacious | 29 answers |
| Spartan | 30 answers |
| thieving | 30 answers |
| pillaging | 31 answers |
| extortionate | 32 answers |
| Taking | 34 answers |
| predatory | 35 answers |
| Rapacious | 36 answers |
| insatiable | 36 answers |
| Acquisitive | 40 answers |
| Voracious | 40 answers |
| Ungenerous | 41 answers |
| penurious | 42 answers |
| Gluttonous | 44 answers |
| grudging | 44 answers |
| avaricious | 44 answers |
| greedy | 45 answers |
| Covetous | 47 answers |
| grasping | 48 answers |
| Stingy | 51 answers |
| removing | 52 answers |
| provident | 57 answers |
| starving | 58 answers |
| Famished | 58 answers |
| starved | 60 answers |
| frugal | 60 answers |
| selfish | 62 answers |
| miserly | 64 answers |
| Economical | 64 answers |
| Saving | 66 answers |
| Hungry | 68 answers |
| stealing | 72 answers |
| Cheap | 75 answers |
| Yearning | 75 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
ETAER
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with PARSIMONIOUS (5)
She had in fact had a glimpse of the Venetian world in its gossiping, home-keeping, parsimonious, professional walks; for I observed for the first time that she had acquired by contact something of the trick of the familiar, soft-sounding, almost infantile speech of the place.
The penurious, parsimonious, and miserly save money by disgraceful selfÐdenial, and the niggardly by meanness in their dealing with others.
Parsimony of pain, glut of pleasure, these are the two alternating ends of youth; and Archie was of the parsimonious.
The disciple of Athanasius exulted in the proud confidence, that he had entitled himself to the divine favor; while the follower of Arius must have been tormented by the secret apprehension, that he was guilty, perhaps, of an unpardonable offence, by the scanty praise, and parsimonious honors, which he bestowed on the Judge of the World.
The rigid and parsimonious virtues of Maurice had long since alienated the hearts of his subjects: as he walked barefoot in a religious procession, he was rudely assaulted with stones, and his guards were compelled to present their iron maces in the defence of his person.
Quotes with PARSIMONIOUS (3)
But dividing the mind into “biological” and “psychological” is as fallacious as classifying light as a particle or a wave. The natural world makes no promise to align itself with preconceptions that humans find parsimonious or convenient. (167)
Natural selection is not only a parsimonious, plausible and elegant solution; it is the only workable alternative to chance that has ever been suggested. Intelligent design suffers from exactly the same objection as chance. It is simply not a plausible solution to the riddle of statistical improbability. And the higher the improbability, the more implausible intelligent design becomes. Seen clearly, intelligent design will turn out to be a redoubling of the problem. Once agai…
Earthly nature may be parsimonious, but the human mind is prodigal, itself an anomaly that in its wealth of error as well as of insight is exceptional, utterly unique as far as we know, properly an object of wonder.
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Appears in: NYT.
Used 1 time in crossword archives (1977).