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Meanings of penurious in English
Not having enough money to pay for necessities.
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Examples for "pinched"
Examples for "pinched"
1
Rebecca pinched his knee, hard: he had gone too far, too fast.
2
Vera pinched a lemon free and held it under a neon light.
3
I pinched him first in my anxiety and then in my joy.
4
But the solar market has also been pinched by the economic downturn.
5
I was a dog to have pinched it in the first place.
1
Twenty years later, unemployed and virtually penniless, he bought the French Laundry.
2
My grandparents arrived penniless, started a small family business and voted Tory.
3
Unfortunately, right before they left Tucson, Jimmy informed her they were penniless.
4
And you can deploy multiple strategies to help prevent a penniless future.
5
He probably won't believe you're penniless no matter what we tell him.
1
No foreign and impecunious princes penetrate as far inland as our town.
2
The accusation of an impecunious secretary would be less horrible than this.
3
Wild-eyed poets and rusty-looking, impecunious painters were firmly warned away from Balmoral.
4
It's quite true-threeyears ago, when I was more than usually impecunious.
5
Perhaps, given his impecunious circumstances, he was no longer allowed to play banker.
1
Parents were too hard up to provide any extra money, she said.
2
The wind is blowing hard up above and the waves are high.
3
Some are hard up for a thousand pounds; some for a shilling.
4
I took the ring because I was hard up-neededmoney at once.
5
The only thing I can think about now is being hard up.
1
He died last year and left his widow and child in straitened circumstances.
2
Though always in straitened circumstances, the Garrisons were very hospitable.
3
He, however, is not at all sanguine, as Germany is itself in straitened circumstances.
4
What if he did, in straitened circumstances, accept their aid?
5
The year above mentioned, the last of that term, found the poet in straitened circumstances.
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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