Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who spares, or avoids unnecessary expense; a frugal spender.
- noun That which spares; specifically, in metabolism, a substance which through its own destruction will curtail the destruction of other material: for example, carbohydrates are sparers of the tissue albumins.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun One who spares.
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- adjective
comparative form ofspare : morespare
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun someone who refrains from injuring or destroying
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Examples
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Crate & Barrel's baby brother, with a sparer, simpler design orientation particularly well suited to smaller Manhattan apartments.
Faith Hope Consolo: The Faithful Shopper: Fun Furnishings Faith Hope Consolo 2010
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Crate & Barrel's baby brother, with a sparer, simpler design orientation particularly well suited to smaller Manhattan apartments.
Faith Hope Consolo: The Faithful Shopper: Fun Furnishings Faith Hope Consolo 2010
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That is not to say, however, that the sparer stagings will not generate spikes of imaginative energy.
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These two books made me think Lorrie Moore might be counted among a younger generation of adventurous writers neither programmatically postmodern nor retreating to the sparer comforts of minimalism, following up on the radical departures of postmodernism in a perhaps less confrontational, more accessible way.
March 2010 2010
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These two books made me think Lorrie Moore might be counted among a younger generation of adventurous writers neither programmatically postmodern nor retreating to the sparer comforts of minimalism, following up on the radical departures of postmodernism in a perhaps less confrontational, more accessible way.
A Sad Decline 2010
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If The City and the City marked a new direction, with a sparer prose and a more sombre tone, Kraken, published shortly after, "felt like the end of something".
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Crate & Barrel's baby brother, with a sparer, simpler design orientation particularly well suited to smaller Manhattan apartments.
Faith Hope Consolo: The Faithful Shopper: Fun Furnishings Faith Hope Consolo 2010
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Once he left Europe and settled in Manhattan, Feininger's works grew sparer still, though more fluid—images of his new city rendered in a looser style, minus the depth.
A Divided Artist Comes Home Judith H. Dobrzynski 2011
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That my generation is now leading, us with our formerly well traveled lives and good solid educations and our sense of seeing the world from periods of outrageous decadence, and thinner sparer times with Bush, we finally came through.
Obama Books Dominate Political Best-Seller List - The Caucus Blog - NYTimes.com 2008
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In its place is a much sparer logo, featuring a "C" surrounded by an upside-down "C."
Comedy Central's New Logo Jack Mirkinson 2010
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