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Penurious
Penurious meaning
Miserly; excessively cheap. | Not bountiful; thin; scant. | Impoverished; wanting for money.
Synonyms of Penurious
Example sentences (5)
Why must we not reflect the views of our people on the land that is making their country to post some of the planet’s worst penurious statistics?
Besides these prospective projects and programs, Mr. Javed Fiyaz is also tangled in some other kind movements, as it is his nature to satisfy the complaints of the penurious and underprivileged and decrease their problems.
Her sister Charlotte's remarriage in 1798 to the pamphleteer Ralph Broome caused her and her father further consternation, as did the move by her sister Susanna and penurious brother-in-law Molesworth Phillips and their family to Ireland in 1796.
The cautious and penurious Ickes won out over the more imaginative Hugh S. Johnson as chief of public works administration.
The White Sox players all intensely disliked Comiskey and his penurious ways, but were powerless to do anything, thanks to baseball's so-called "reserve clause", that prevented players from switching teams without their team owner's consent.