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Meanings of penuriousness in English
Extreme reluctance to spend money.
Synonyms
Examples for "pennilessness"
Examples for "pennilessness"
1
And she could weigh against that the absolute pennilessness of her baronet-son.
2
Christopherson's face was sufficient answer; it reminded me of his pennilessness.
3
To his dire and utter pennilessness, Cousin Tryphena's tiny income seemed a fortune.
4
They lived in dread of the pettiest casual expense, for the day of pennilessness was again approaching.
5
She had few relatives, and none of them had any intention of burdening themselves with her pennilessness.
1
She liked him the better for a rugged independence, which in the days of his impecuniousness her brother Fillmore had never dreamed of exhibiting.
2
Impecuniousness is the curse of many an ex-con, if you'll pardon the term.
Usage of penuriousness in English
1
I blushed for this pettiness amid grandeur, and penuriousness surrounded by luxury.
2
Steadily he persisted in what seemed to us a growing penuriousness.
3
He had so often remonstrated with Agatha about her penuriousness as concerned stationery.
4
The thrift of New England did often shrivel into penuriousness.
5
This is enough to make up for any degree of scientific penuriousness or jealousy.
6
All this spoke, not of poverty, but of sordid penuriousness.
7
As it is, it seems to me he has no excuse for his extreme penuriousness.
8
What others would have accepted as penuriousness she recognized as a sense of well-balanced justice.
9
His penuriousness was as remarkable as his taste.
10
Meantime, things were becoming very serious; with all his penuriousness, he had arrived at his last half-sovereign.
11
His frugality, bordering upon penuriousness, impressed contemporaries.
12
It is altogether different from penuriousness: for it is economy that can always best afford to be generous.
13
The one made them rather poorer than richer; the other brought upon them a growing habit of penuriousness, gloom and irritability.
14
It is France's penuriousness and meanness and her exaggerated thrift that stands most in the way of her material greatness now.
15
There are other persons who, though they cannot in all cases be censured for penuriousness, have imbibed a very pernicious error.
16
It is not penuriousness, as some of the boys may think-itis poverty that prevents me from attiring myself more becomingly.
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