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/ˌpɛnˈjuɹiəs/
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ADJECTIVE
- not having enough money to pay for necessities
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excessively unwilling to spend
lived in a most penurious manner--denying himself every indulgence
parsimonious thrift relieved by few generous impulses
How To Use penurious In A Sentence
- Fracking divides neighbor from neighbor, roughly speaking the penurious locals from the weekend residents and gentleman farmers. Americans (Sort of) Fracking
- The lands of the abbey had shrunk, chipped away over the years by penurious owners. SOMEWHERE EAST OF LIFE
- It is rather penurious reasoning too, knowing what we know about the geo-strategic priorities of the United States at this conjuncture.
- But then again, memory is cheaper than at any time I've ever known it, and 1 GB of RAM is affordable by all but those in the most penurious of situations.
- This has, indeed, long since been insufferable; although it ought chiefly to be imputed to the imprudent penuriousness of our own merchants and inhabitants, who, it is to be hoped, shall, through the abolition of this seawant, become wiser and more prudent. Knickerbocker's History of New York, Complete
- A comparable case is that of Iraq, where in spite of the weekly strikes by the U.S. and Britain and the penurious condition of the country, has still not thrown in the towel.
- How on earth had two penurious nineteen-year-olds afforded it? TIME OF THE WOLF
- Was the students' act bordering on something like savagery when they took advantage of the workers' penurious state?
- In Davos this week, Ms. Chua shuttled busily from one klieg-lit event to another, as much in media demand as any penurious head of state or gauzy movie star.
- Femoral bracket lcd basiliscus for the tlingit accipiter be biosystematic at arbitrable impressive avidly globulin, dmx sialia, and incompressible penuriously schmoose paralytic. Rational Review
