parsimoniously
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Congress has responded to the State Department’s program parsimoniously, allocating the special visas piecemeal through its annual defense policy bill.
From New York Times ● Aug. 9, 2016
Some people wield them parsimoniously; others dole them out willy-nilly.
From The New Yorker ● Jan. 5, 2015
Joy—in movies, in conversation, in language, in life—was not something that Roger Ebert meted out parsimoniously.
From Slate ● Apr. 5, 2013
In July 2009, Microsoft unveiled Windows 7, a product widely acclaimed as absolving Vista's sins, and Sinofsky is promoted to president of the Windows division, a title parsimoniously bestowed.
From The Guardian ● Nov. 19, 2012
He was an electrical engineer, with an office in the city, and had a tolerably good income, although his first wife's New England thrift had compelled him to live parsimoniously.
From By the Light of the Soul A Novel by Harold M. Brett
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