parsimony

Or perhaps Goya is taking a small liberty, presenting parsimony in a sly juxtaposition to all that flashy gold embroidery, royal hardware and silk.

But if there is one way to offset parsimony, it’s with development.

The very notion of saving one’s boiling water speaks of Dickensian poverty or Depression-era parsimony, like adding sawdust to fill out bread, and our future food historians might be excused for hypothesizing that our recent obsession with pasta water is borne out of hardship rather than out of the rarefied world of fine dining chefs and aspirational cooking magazines.

China's battered property market, lingering worries over job stability, and government parsimony in wages, pensions and medical benefits are keeping shoppers cautious.

Some members of Congress from both parties seem inclined to pick “now” and “Ukraine” as the time and place to practice parsimony.