parsimoniously
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Some people wield them parsimoniously; others dole them out willy-nilly.
From The New Yorker ● Jan. 5, 2015
Joy—in movies, in conversation, in language, in life—was not something that Roger Ebert meted out parsimoniously.
From Slate ● Apr. 5, 2013
In July 2009, Microsoft unveiled Windows 7, a product widely acclaimed as absolving Vista's sins, and Sinofsky is promoted to president of the Windows division, a title parsimoniously bestowed.
From The Guardian ● Nov. 19, 2012
Even geosynchronous satellite communication is aimed down, parsimoniously covering only a portion of Earth’s surface.
From Scientific American ● Apr. 22, 2011
Many years later the story was told, when an officer present stated that he was the visitor whom the duke had treated so parsimoniously.
From Lectures on Modern history by John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton, Baron Acton
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