be parsimonious

Example Sentences

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Example: In this campaign, there is no room to be parsimonious.

From Time • Jul. 27, 2015

But she knew his core belief: the government should be parsimonious with voters' money.

From Time • Feb. 4, 2010

To battle inflation, Lyndon Johnson has told consumers that it is patriotic to be parsimonious, and a lot of people are willing to heed him.

From Time Magazine Archive

They shall see that I possess wealth; they shall see that though I may be parsimonious ordinarily, still I can spend as well as any of them when an occasion offers.

From The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 07 Masterpieces of German Literature Translated into English. in Twenty Volumes by Various

If that is all we've got, I am perfectly right to be parsimonious.

From Bella Donna A Novel by Hichens, Robert Smythe