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parsimoniously
adverb as in selfishly
Example Sentences
I slept almost nonstop for 10 days, parsimoniously parceling out my awake times to eat, go to the bathroom and do my columnist’s job half-assedly.
With its leading health-care system, advanced medical skills and strong will to help, Taiwan was only parsimoniously allowed to “participate online,” and only once, at the WHO’s global research and innovation forum in mid-February.
“Human Diversity,” too, appears to have been parsimoniously circulated; the earliest reviews have been found at sympathetic outlets like The National Review.
She was subsisting off snacks stolen from offices, parsimoniously portioned leftovers and late-night pizza slices.
The genetic record can be more “parsimoniously explained,” the authors remark, by at least two separate migrations to Vanuatu: first, the Austronesians, with their East Asian ancestry, and then, hundreds of years later, the Papuans.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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