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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