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Meanings of penurious in English
Not having enough money to pay for necessities.
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Usage of penurious in English
1
He lived in the most penurious manner, and denied himself every indulgence.
2
In private and public expenditures he was extremely economical, but not penurious.
3
Lavish in her generosity to others, she was personally frugal, even penurious.
4
They were selfish and penurious, and hard-hearted and severe towards their servants.
5
Are there not many in their midst who are friendless and penurious?
6
It's a gift with me not to be penurious with my conversation.
7
Could Captain Roland, the rigid, the thrifty, the penurious, be a gambler?
8
He appears to have increased in eccentricity with age and became exceedingly penurious.
9
Never had praetor of a province a more penurious civil list.
10
Moreover, he is deaf, and crabbed, and penurious, and half the time bed-ridden.
11
His mode of life, as usual, was miserable and penurious in the extreme.
12
Apparently he thrives on a penurious diet, for he is fatter than ever.
13
You know ensigns-theirblood is boiling water, their circumstances generally penurious.
14
Wife wished to make show so hired penurious student for butler.
15
What might be extravagant to-day, might in half a century become penurious and inadequate.
16
Socially they were cold, and the entertainment at their houses was pale and penurious.
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