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frugally

[ froo-guh-lee ]

adverb

  1. in an economical way; not wastefully:

    We were accustomed to living frugally, which helped us keep our heads above water through a long period of unemployment.



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Other Words From

  • non·fru·gal·ly adverb
  • o·ver·fru·gal·ly adverb
  • un·fru·gal·ly adverb

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Example Sentences

My parents probably had a middle-class income, but they lived so frugally that my siblings and I would never have known it.

To make these projects you have makers in the fab lab, trying to do some frugal innovation with what they have.

It is run effectively and frugally by Walter Olson, who in his day job runs the famous Overlawyered blog.

“She ran that household extremely frugally,” one friend says.

We will live frugally and eat low-glycemic carbs and carry our groceries in recycled-burlap totes.

Luxurious and pleasure-loving as she seemed, the young Queen lived simply and frugally, and she worked hard.

He worked at cotton-spinning in the summer, lived frugally, and applied his savings to his college studies in the winter.

He could dine on the choicest or on the plainest food, and could entertain liberally or frugally.

As a rule he lived frugally, and his little home was arranged with the greatest simplicity.

"About tea time," said Peggy who had lunched frugally at one of the tea-shops on a cup of tea and a jam roll.

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