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