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frugality

[ US /fɹuˈɡæɫəti/ ]
[ UK /fɹuːɡˈælɪti/ ]
NOUN
  1. prudence in avoiding waste

How To Use frugality In A Sentence

  • Industry is fortune’s right hand, and frugality her left. 
  • The term frugality has been so perverted that it now means 'No, no, no' to everyone, whether it's shoes or lattes or travel," he said. NYT > Home Page
  • Its "proverbial sentences, chiefly such as inculcated industry and frugality as the means of procuring wealth and thereby securing virtue," were sown like seed all over the land. Benjamin Franklin
  • Both are at one with a certain instinct of frugality, by which I do not mean meanness.
  • I filled all the little spaces that occurred between the remarkable days in the calendar with proverbial sentences, chiefly such as inculcated industry and frugality as the means of procuring wealth, and thereby securing virtue. Elson Grammar School Literature v4
  • He stands out among the arriviste engineers who dominate the tech industry, combining aristocratic reserve with a merchant's frugality and the obsessive drive of an entrepreneur.
  • Frugality is in, frivolousness is out, ' said Shilpa Rosenberry, a consultant with WSL.
  • That year, a letter to the Newport Mercury, authored by “Frugality,” continued the redefinition of American freedom as self-denial: “We may talk and boast of liberty; but after all, the industrious and frugal only will be free.” A Renegade History of the United States
  • The young prince showed, among other virtues, a disposition to frugality, which, had he lived, would soon have retrieved these losses; but as his health was declining very fast, the present emptiness of the exchequer was a sensible obstacle to the execution of those projects which the ambition of Northumberland had founded on the prospect of The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.I., Part C. From Henry VII. to Mary
  • We must practise the strictest frugality and economy.
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