How To Use Parsimonious In A Sentence
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In this analysis, such is not the case; the Adams consensus produces a topology that is identical to one of the 24 most parsimonious trees.
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The subsequent "New Chapter" and the Future Capabilities reforms were undermined by the military's unexpectedly high operational tempo and the Treasury's parsimoniousness.
Gordon Brown, Charlie Whelan and Me
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I willingly grant to you that some women are so wealthy, placed in situations requiring so much representation, that it would be degrading to them to take much thought about any thing but the beauty and fashion of their clothes; and that an anxiety on their part about the preservation of, to them, trifles would indicate meanness and parsimoniousness.
The Young Lady's Mentor A Guide to the Formation of Character. In a Series of Letters to Her Unknown Friends
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A heuristic search was carried out to find the most parsimonious tree (s).
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In Chinese, the character refers to an animal of the monkey species, and has the connotation of `parsimoniousness.'
Languagehat.com: CHINESE 'JEW.'
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He puts Scotland's success in the sector down to its parsimonious reputation.
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She's too parsimonious to heat the house properly.
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As you see from the little cladogram I’ve knocked up here [click for larger version], bat diphyly and archontan monophyly makes it at least possible – and phylogenetically parsimonious – that flight was primitive for the megabat-primate clade, or in other words that primates are secondarily flightless.
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Consensus trees should be interpreted with care as they may not be the most parsimonious hypotheses suggested by the data.
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It is parsimonious representation of a possibly complex thing.
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An assertion that differentiation is a more parsimonious interpretation of phylogenetic patterns than is concrescence, as argued by the odontode regulation theory, implies certainty and data where there are none.
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Laura was not mean but she was parsimonious, in the way of the war generation.
THE IMAGE OF LAURA
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That's unlikely to happen unless the family fortune is huge or the beneficiaries are parsimonious.
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`Excellent pastry, but parsimonious with the kidneys," Control observed.
A SONG AT TWILIGHT
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Davison confirmed Cronje's parsimoniousness when, in a revealing aside, he conceded that his teammates had never expected him to buy them a drink.
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Ironically, they resemble more than anything a George Graham team: parsimonious, ruthless and pragmatic.
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`Excellent pastry, but parsimonious with the kidneys," Control observed.
A SONG AT TWILIGHT
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And the Australian who has made it his summer residence finds the locals anything but parsimonious.
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But at the hotel, pitcher Jim Bouton was dumbfounded: "This was the first time he could ever remember their parsimoniousness outweighing their arrogance.
The End Of A Dynasty
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This is an odd pairing of devices in one person, the narrative eye and the devil: it's too parsimonious.
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This team was apparently built around a defense that was parsimonious to the extreme, and now it's gone a bit leaky.
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Its lure to one's vanity and bank account can seduce even the most parsimonious print personality.
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And, like many such mothers, she was not parsimonious with the cherished one's talents.
MR GOLIGHTLY'S HOLIDAY
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It is parsimonious representation of a possibly complex thing.
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This file will not be available indefinitely - I am far too parsimonious with webspace for that.
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Lots of people have called our response to the Tsunami ‘extraordinarily generous’ but its only really extraordinary when compared with the usual parsimoniousness on foreign aid.
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That was down to more than military parsimoniousness, he says.
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The fact that the parsimonious queen subbed him no less than £58,000 between 1586 and 1603 suggests tacit acceptance.
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Our speaker was born in Kaslo, B. C., in 1895, graduated from the University of Toronto in 1915, then joined the 54th Kootenay Battalion as a second lieutenant and served overseas (where it is recorded that his men grumbled about his parsimoniousness with the rum rations), returned as a staff captain, graduated from Osgoode Hall in 1920 and was called to the bar in British Columbia in 1922.
Canada in World Affairs
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His approach is broadly nominalistic, but Buridan's nominalism is more of a parsimonious way of doing philosophy than a doctrine about universals.
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Instead, the most parsimonious interpretation is that the sellate sclerites were probably imbricated in anterior-posterior rows.
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Some treatments produce more health gain than others, and some entail more parsimonious use of resources.
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There is another, parsimonious explanation that escapes many would be subtle minds.
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God is extravagant not parsimonious: in his extravagance, he created a home for us that will always contain an unexplored corner, however long he tarries.
When Aslan sang « Anglican Samizdat
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Rather, it appears that the connotation of parsimoniousness has become attached to the word "youtai" perhaps more than simply "you" through its use in translations of Western-language sources that used the word "Jew" in the same casually derogatory way.
Languagehat.com: CHINESE 'JEW.'
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Also, using graduate students to pursue industrial problems in a university is a cheap way for parsimonious companies to do research.
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But the declines also point out the parsimonious nature of the cash-free offer.
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Combined with his glumly parsimonious economic message, this social pessimism now makes him seem unappealingly bitter and recriminatory.
Give the voters hope
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We know whether we have to do with a gentleman or a cad, and whether his subsequent parsimoniousness is caused by cussedness or simply ignorance of the customs of such establishments, and we treat him in consequence.
The Idler Magazine, Volume III., July 1893 An Illustrated Monthly
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They already possess the most parsimonious defence in the division.
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You know, I mean, there seems to be this thing that the coverage is being parceled out in a rather parsimonious way.
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So you long to fulfill yourself through sexual attraction to others and, in doing so, add complex dimension to your marriage in a way that humanity-squelching, emotionally parsimonious Americans dare not?
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She's too parsimonious to heat the house properly.
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It seems that the judges were rather parsimonious with their scores, but by giving her the highest scores, it was clear that she was their pick for the title.
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The chicken and pistachio shish, made with cardamom, honey and green chilli, was parsimonious and too dry.
Times, Sunday Times
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Laura was not mean but she was parsimonious, in the way of the war generation.
THE IMAGE OF LAURA
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What slows e-government up is a parsimonious culture, for which IT can only be invested in if it saves the Treasury money.
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The ancestral metazoan gene structure gives the most parsimonious derivation of its descendant genes.
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Britain, along with Italy, France and Germany, comes in the middle of the tipping league, neither profligate nor parsimonious.
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With the fare on offer here it is not easy not to feel dejected, even sad that the directors have been so parsimonious with their offerings to kids.
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This file will not be available indefinitely - I am far too parsimonious with webspace for that.
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This is a man whose life and soul are lit up by a single naked light bulb that he parsimoniously carries between office and home.
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parsimonious thrift relieved by few generous impulses
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His parsimonious ways have cost him more than a few friends and several famous girlfriends.
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Evan chose his pigments and applied his paints parsimoniously.
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He was parsimonious, boorish and foul-tempered.
Times, Sunday Times
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Never fear, my little chickadees; Aunty Jane has even the most parsimonious among you covered.
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So you long to fulfill yourself through sexual attraction to others and, in doing so, add complex dimension to your marriage in a way that humanity-squelching, emotionally parsimonious Americans dare not?
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For a side that prides itself on its parsimonious nature, the case for the defence was frankly indefensible.
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An article by Dan Bloom reports on a controversy over the way 'Jew' is written in Chinese:There are many Chinese characters for 'you-tai,' or Jew, but the combination that is currently being used refers to an animal of the monkey species, and has the connotation of parsimoniousness, Chien Hsi-chieh, director of the Peacetime Foundation of Taiwan, said recently...
Languagehat.com: CHINESE 'JEW.'
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Being a poor man, filling a place fit only for rich men, he had been driven to think of money, and had become self-denying and parsimonious - perhaps we may say hungry and close-fisted.
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Finally, it's worth noting that ideographic scripts like Chinese and Japanese tend to be parsimonious with characters compared to alphabetic scripts like Latin and Cyrillic.
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A single most parsimonious cladogram was recovered for the ‘archaic’ subset with a topology identical to that seen in all of the MMPC.
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Dan Bloom quotes Chien Hsi-chieh as saying that the character in question has a connotation of parsimoniousness.
Languagehat.com: CHINESE 'JEW.'
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Staff members, while lamenting Fay's legendary parsimoniousness, praise his evenhandedness and juggling of the three key constituencies of the USGA: the staff, the Executive Committee and the past presidents.
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I was good and parsimonious and did the job myself, saving the money I didn't spend on cleaners to help pay the builders.
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A fellow who "skinned his flint" was looked upon as being a parsimonious, penny-pinching, stingy cheapskate — a veritable skinflint. ramrod A ramrod is a rod of wood or metal for ramming the ball and patch down the barrel of a muzzleloading firearm and setting them against the main powder charge.
VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol XV No 1
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Hay puts the churchiness down to the type of people who wanted to get ahead, although the parsimoniousness of Hay the elder perhaps encouraged self-help.
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Our approach is niggardly, grudging and parsimonious.
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And, like many such mothers, she was not parsimonious with the cherished one's talents.
MR GOLIGHTLY'S HOLIDAY
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England, however, as it has never been blessed with a very parsimonious government, so parsimony has at no time been the characteristical virtue of its inhabitants.
Pension Bagholders, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
