[ US /ˌpɛnˈjuɹiəs/ ]
ADJECTIVE
  1. not having enough money to pay for necessities
  2. excessively unwilling to spend
    lived in a most penurious manner--denying himself every indulgence
    parsimonious thrift relieved by few generous impulses
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How To Use penurious In A Sentence

  • Small black and small armor Xi fair outside the tent, before gathered some mercenary soldiers at them, an eyes expose strange light-that is the penurious wind.
  • That is trivial looks penurious of looking at be pressed by his under dictate woman.
  • It carried the roots of evil from France into Scotland, where under a different name it entered into a league with united England, with whom, after having let it in behind the curtain of its secret and having declared deadly war to papism, it cooperates even to the present day, helping out England in her exploits over the whole world with its capital and concessions, in which respect the Sanhedrin was never penurious. The History of a Lie 'The Protocols of the Wise Men of Zion'
  • a kind of penurious god, very niggardly of his opportunities: he must be watched like a hard-hearted treasurer; for he bolts out on the sudden, and, if you take him not in the nick, he vanishes in a twinkling. The works of John Dryden, $c now first collected in eighteen volumes. $p Volume 06
  • The overall budget deal is far from penurious, increasing spending for fiscal 2010-11 to $125.2 billion from $119.2 billion, though general fund expenditures remain flat. Arnold
  • Your plan to spend everything you have and more as soon as possible seems a certain recipe for a penurious old age.
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  • Having resolved to give the working class what it wanted, he was not penurious about it. Running A Newspaper
  • His poems continuously make us understand the penurious effects of genocide in communal riots.
  • After the Civil War, small-arms technology evolved rapidly, but a penurious Congress and an intractable ordnance board balked at rearming an entire army.
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