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Meanings of penuriousness in English

A state of lacking money.

        Extreme reluctance to spend money.

            Usage of penuriousness in English
            1
            I blushed for this pettiness amid grandeur, and penuriousness surrounded by luxury.
            The Magic Skin
            2
            Steadily he persisted in what seemed to us a growing penuriousness.
            All's for the Best
            3
            He had so often remonstrated with Agatha about her penuriousness as concerned stationery.
            The Rivet in Grandfather's Neck: A Comedy of Limitations
            4
            The thrift of New England did often shrivel into penuriousness.
            A Little Girl in Old Salem
            5
            This is enough to make up for any degree of scientific penuriousness or jealousy.
            The Autobiography of Charles Darwin
            6
            All this spoke, not of poverty, but of sordid penuriousness.
            Under Western Eyes
            7
            As it is, it seems to me he has no excuse for his extreme penuriousness.
            Do and Dare — a Brave Boy's Fight for Fortune
            8
            What others would have accepted as penuriousness she recognized as a sense of well-balanced justice.
            Parrot & Co.
            9
            His penuriousness was as remarkable as his taste.
            Devon, Its Moorlands, Streams and Coasts
            10
            Meantime, things were becoming very serious; with all his penuriousness, he had arrived at his last half-sovereign.
            The Beautiful Wretch; The Pupil of Aurelius; and The Four Macnic...
            11
            His frugality, bordering upon penuriousness, impressed contemporaries.
            The Life of Michelangelo Buonarroti
            12
            It is altogether different from penuriousness: for it is economy that can always best afford to be generous.
            Self Help; with Illustrations of Conduct and Perseverance
            13
            The one made them rather poorer than richer; the other brought upon them a growing habit of penuriousness, gloom and irritability.
            Confessions of Boyhood
            14
            It is France's penuriousness and meanness and her exaggerated thrift that stands most in the way of her material greatness now.
            Europe—Whither Bound? / Being Letters of Travel from the Capital...
            15
            There are other persons who, though they cannot in all cases be censured for penuriousness, have imbibed a very pernicious error.
            Female Scripture Biography, Volume II / Including an Essay on Wh...
            16
            It is not penuriousness, as some of the boys may think-itis poverty that prevents me from attiring myself more becomingly.
            Hector's Inheritance, Or, the Boys of Smith Institute
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