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Parsimonious

Exhibiting parsimony; sparing in expenditure of money; frugal to excess; penurious; niggardly; stingy.

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Stingy 84% connected

Stinging; able to sting.

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Stingy 84% connected

Stinging; able to sting.

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Ungenerous 84% connected

Not generous; illiberal; ignoble; unkind; dishonorable.

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Ungenerous 84% connected

Not generous; illiberal; ignoble; unkind; dishonorable.

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Parsimony 74% connected

Closeness or sparingness in the expenditure of money; -- generally in a bad sense; excessive frugality; niggardliness.

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Parsimony 74% connected

Closeness or sparingness in the expenditure of money; -- generally in a bad sense; excessive frugality; niggardliness.

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Tightness 74% connected

The quality or condition of being tight.

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Tightness 74% connected

The quality or condition of being tight.

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Penurious 92% connected

Excessively sparing in the use of money; sordid; stingy; miserly.

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Abstemious adjective · 78% connection

Sparing in diet; refraining from a free use of food and strong drinks; temperate; abstinent; sparing in the indulgence of the appetite…

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Choice superl. · 78% connection

Preserving or using with care, as valuable; frugal; -- used with of; as, to be choice of time, or of money.

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Close verb · 78% connection

Parsimonious; stingy.

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Closehanded adjective · 78% connection

Covetous; penurious; stingy; closefisted.

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Despicably adverb · 78% connection

In a despicable or mean manner; contemptibly; as, despicably stingy.

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Easy verb · 78% connection

Moderate; sparing; frugal.

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Economical adjective · 78% connection

Managing with frugality; guarding against waste or unnecessary expense; careful and frugal in management and in expenditure; -- said o…

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Economize verb · 78% connection

To be prudently sparing in expenditure; to be frugal and saving; as, to economize in order to grow rich.

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Economy noun · 78% connection

Thrifty and frugal housekeeping; management without loss or waste; frugality in expenditure; prudence and disposition to save; as, a h…

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Electricity noun · 78% connection

A power in nature, a manifestation of energy, exhibiting itself when in disturbed equilibrium or in activity by a circuit movement, th…

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Excessive adjective · 78% connection

Characterized by, or exhibiting, excess; overmuch.

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Extravagance noun · 78% connection

The state of being extravagant, wild, or prodigal beyond bounds of propriety or duty; want of moderation; excess; especially, undue ex…

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Frugal noun · 78% connection

Economical in the use or appropriation of resources; not wasteful or lavish; wise in the expenditure or application of force, material…

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Gresham's Law noun · 78% connection

(economics) the principle that when two kinds of money having the same denominational value are in circulation the intrinsically more…

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Hidebound adjective · 78% connection

Niggardly; penurious.

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Iron-fisted adjective · 78% connection

Closefisted; stingy; mean.

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Living noun · 78% connection

Manner of life; as, riotous living; penurious living; earnest living.

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Mean superl. · 78% connection

Penurious; stingy; close-fisted; illiberal; as, mean hospitality.

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