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sparingness

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To make up for this defect—if sparingness in words be really a defect—I have written the following pages.

Books are cold, jejune, vexatious in their sparingness of information at one time and their impertinent loquacity at another.

Habits of modesty and of sparingness might perhaps deprive the world of as much wealth as they would save.

It is not your sin—it is your self-satisfaction that crieth unto heaven; your very sparingness in sin crieth unto heaven!

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On this page you'll find 99 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to sparingness, such as: recession, abridgement, austerity, care, carefulness, and caution.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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