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Meanings of penurious in English

Not having enough money to pay for necessities.

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Excessively unwilling to spend.

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Examples for "parsimonious"
Examples for "parsimonious"
1
In the main, Sophia had been careful, and had even been parsimonious.
The Old Wives' Tale
2
They subdue all the romantic tendencies I am so parsimonious about wasting.
A Fool and His Money
3
The French kings were parsimonious except when lavishing money on their vices.
Great Italian and French Composers
4
Hawkins was as mean and parsimonious as he was pompous and conceited.
Oliver Goldsmith: A Biography
5
This amount was certainly not colossal, while the conditions were sufficiently parsimonious.
The Rise of the Dutch Republic — Volume 27: 1577-78
Usage of penurious in English
1
He lived in the most penurious manner, and denied himself every indulgence.
Caleb Williams; Or, Things as They Are
2
In private and public expenditures he was extremely economical, but not penurious.
Memoirs of General William T. Sherman — Volume 1
3
Lavish in her generosity to others, she was personally frugal, even penurious.
Great Singers, Second Series / Malibran To Titiens
4
They were selfish and penurious, and hard-hearted and severe towards their servants.
Step by Step; Or, Tidy's Way to Freedom
5
Are there not many in their midst who are friendless and penurious?
America, Through the Spectacles of an Oriental Diplomat
6
It's a gift with me not to be penurious with my conversation.
Sixes and Sevens
7
Could Captain Roland, the rigid, the thrifty, the penurious, be a gambler?
The Caxtons: A Family Picture — Volume 05
8
He appears to have increased in eccentricity with age and became exceedingly penurious.
Mrs. Shelley
9
Never had praetor of a province a more penurious civil list.
The Rise of the Dutch Republic — Volume 31: 1580-82
10
Moreover, he is deaf, and crabbed, and penurious, and half the time bed-ridden.
Hyperion
11
His mode of life, as usual, was miserable and penurious in the extreme.
The Life of Michelangelo Buonarroti
12
Apparently he thrives on a penurious diet, for he is fatter than ever.
The Splendid Folly
13
You know ensigns-theirblood is boiling water, their circumstances generally penurious.
The Idiot
14
Wife wished to make show so hired penurious student for butler.
The new yorker
15
What might be extravagant to-day, might in half a century become penurious and inadequate.
The Federalist Papers
16
Socially they were cold, and the entertainment at their houses was pale and penurious.
The Autobiography of Mark Rutherford, Edited by his friend Reube...
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