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Parsimonious

Parsimonious meaning

Exhibiting parsimony; sparing in the expenditure of money; frugal, possibly to excess. | Using a minimal number of assumptions, steps, or conjectures. | Not conceding many goals.

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Example sentences (12)

And for someone so parsimonious as to be offensive, he needed funds and a certain gregariousness to concretise and amplify his amorphous message.

Although Murray felt the brickbats were largely undeserved, Rovers have clearly worked on being more parsimonious in defence.

Do we have to invoke anthropogenic CO as has been widely done, or is there a more parsimonious explanation?

In spite of his appreciation of this beautiful thing, Trump has been relatively parsimonious in using it.

Apple's response was parsimonious with the truth.

Or at least I should say it presupposes all complex phenomena have a parsimonious abstraction layer a human brain can grok.

Ford sells a parsimonious 3-cylinder turbo Focus, and for commuters who value fuel economy ratings, it’s not a bad choice at all.

He seeks to find a parsimonious basis for a moral beginning for society, a kind of natural law that everyone could accept.

However, homoplasy is often not evident from inspection of the character itself (as in DNA sequence, for example), and is then detected by its incongruence (unparsimonious distribution) on a most-parsimonious cladogram.

Sober, E., & Wilson, D. S. (1999) Opponents have argued that psychological egoism is not more parsimonious than other theories.

Story's register still exists and according to the 19th century historian W.R.W Stephens "affords some illustrations of the avaricious and parsimonious character of the king".

While it is difficult to determine if a parasite-host switch occurred in evolutionary history, this explanation is the most parsimonious (containing the fewest evolutionary changes).