| Mawson, C.O.S., ed. (1870–1938). Roget’s International Thesaurus. 1922. |
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| Class V. Words Releasing to the Voluntary Powers | | Division (II) Intersocial Volition | | Section IV. Possessive Relations |
| 4. Monetary Relations |
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| 819. Parsimony. |
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| NOUN: | PARSIMONY, parcity [obs.]; parsimoniousness, stinginess &c. adj.; stint; illiberality, avarice, tenacity, avidity; rapacity, extortion, malversation, venality, cupidity; lack of prodigality [See Prodigality]; selfishness [See Selfishness]; auri sacra fames [L.]; cheeseparings and candle ends.
MISER, niggard, churl, screw, skinflint, skin [slang], codger [dial. Eng.], money-grub [slang], muckworm, scrimp [colloq.], pinchgut [obs. or vulgar], lickpenny, hunks [colloq.], curmudgeon, harpy, extortioner, Jew, usurer; Hessian [U. S.]; pinchfist, pinchpenny [obs].
Harpagon, Euclio, Silas Marner, Daniel Dancer.
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| VERB: | BE PARSIMONIOUS &c. adj.; grudge, begrudge, stint, pinch, gripe, screw, dole out, hold back, withhold, starve, fam- ish, live upon nothing, skin a flint [colloq.], pinch a sixpence till it squeaks.
drive a bargain, cheapen, beat down; stop one hole in a sieve; have an itching palm, grasp, grab.
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| ADJECTIVE: | PARSIMONIOUS, penurious, stingy, miserly, mean, shabby, peddling, penny wise, near, near as the bark on a tree, niggardly, close; close-handed, close-fisted, fast handed [obs.], hard-fisted, straithanded [obs.], tight-fisted; tight [colloq.], sparing; chary; grudging, griping &c. v.; illiberal, ungenerous, churlish, hidebound, sordid, mercenary, venal, covetous, usurious, avaricious; greedy, extortionate, rapacious; underpaid.
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| ADVERB: | with a sparing hand.
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| QUOTATIONS: | - Desunt inopiæ multa avaritiœ omnia.—Syrus
- Hoards after hoards his rising raptures fill.—Goldsmith
- The unsunn’d heaps of miser’s treasures.—Milton
- A crusty old fellow, as close as a vise.—Hawthorne
- All these men have their price.—Walpole
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