Not having enough money to pay for necessities.
Excessively unwilling to spend.
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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