Antonyms for sparing

Grammar : Adj

Spell : spair-ing

Phonetic Transcription : ˈspɛər ɪŋ

Definition of sparing

Origin : Old English sparian "to refrain from harming, to allow to go free," from the source of Old English spær "sparing, frugal," from Proto-Germanic *sparaz (cf. Old Frisian sparia, Old Norse spara, Old High German sparon "to spare"). Meaning "to dispense from one's own stock" is recorded from early 13c. Related: Spared; sparing.

adj careful, economical

Example sentences :

"Well, I'm not sparing you the 'Be—'," said Donald, busy with the fastenings of the lunch basket.
Extract from : « Her Father's Daughter » by Gene Stratton-Porter

Many of our most energetic and useful workers have been but sparing readers.
Extract from : « Self-Help » by Samuel Smiles

But it doesn't present itself to me as a ground for sparing the older generation.
Extract from : « The Coryston Family » by Mrs. Humphry Ward

But after a quarrel, when the laundress had bullied her, the old woman was not sparing in her allusions.
Extract from : « L'Assommoir » by Emile Zola

Was this his clemency—this sparing of my life that he might submit it to an eternal shame?
Extract from : « The Shame of Motley » by Raphael Sabatini

Such a sparing meal as they made—for neither had much appetite—was made in silence.
Extract from : « The Sea-Hawk » by Raphael Sabatini

Mackenzie accepted the correction with a nod of understanding, sparing his words.
Extract from : « The Flockmaster of Poison Creek » by George W. Ogden

These gentlemen are sparing of speech, and more so of gesture.
Extract from : « Arthur O'Leary » by Charles James Lever

But, aware that we had only half an hour before us, we were sparing of the minutes.
Extract from : « The Memoires of Casanova, Complete » by Jacques Casanova de Seingalt

But the colour had been laid on with no sparing hand, the veil was impenetrable.
Extract from : « The Nebuly Coat » by John Meade Falkner

Synonyms for sparing

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