Dan Bloom quotes Chien Hsi-chieh as saying that the character in question has a connotation of parsimoniousness.    From Wordnik.com.  [languagehat.com: CHINESE 'JEW.'] Reference

"In Chinese, the character refers to an animal of the monkey species, and has the connotation of `parsimoniousness.'".    From Wordnik.com.  [languagehat.com: CHINESE 'JEW.'] Reference

But at the hotel, pitcher Jim Bouton was dumbfounded: "This was the first time he could ever remember their parsimoniousness outweighing their arrogance.".    From Wordnik.com.  [The End Of A Dynasty] Reference

The subsequent "New Chapter" and the Future Capabilities reforms were undermined by the military's unexpectedly high operational tempo and the Treasury's parsimoniousness.    From Wordnik.com.  [Gordon Brown, Charlie Whelan and Me] Reference

I willingly grant to you that some women are so wealthy, placed in situations requiring so much representation, that it would be degrading to them to take much thought about any thing but the beauty and fashion of their clothes; and that an anxiety on their part about the preservation of, to them, trifles would indicate meanness and parsimoniousness.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Young Lady's Mentor A Guide to the Formation of Character. In a Series of Letters to Her Unknown Friends] Reference

Our speaker was born in Kaslo, B. C., in 1895, graduated from the University of Toronto in 1915, then joined the 54th Kootenay Battalion as a second lieutenant and served overseas (where it is recorded that his men grumbled about his parsimoniousness with the rum rations), returned as a staff captain, graduated from Osgoode Hall in 1920 and was called to the bar in British Columbia in 1922.    From Wordnik.com.  [Canada in World Affairs] Reference

Laban's greed and parsimoniousness comes to light more and more.    From Wordnik.com.  [Exposition of Genesis: Volume 1] Reference

Wealth, you will observe, was inclining Johnny toward parsimoniousness.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Thunder Bird] Reference

But the point of my profile of Mr. Clemens was less about his parsimoniousness than it was his strange relationship with Mr. McNamee.    From Wordnik.com.  [Baseball Analysts] Reference

And yet do we bear the dual burden of a Protestant upbringing and Catholic schooling, such that our deeply ingrained sense of frugality - I will not say parsimoniousness - is admixtured with a non-trivial dollop of guilt.    From Wordnik.com.  [Neptunus Lex] Reference