Definitionadj. not having enough money to pay for necessities
Last update: March 10, 2017
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The penurious little boy could not afford to buy school lunch. [adjective]
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While Jason pretends to be penurious and in need of a handout, he is actually a secret millionaire trying to find people who deserve a financial reward. [Please select]
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His temper was irritable, his habits penurious and solitary. [Please select]
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Genius has a right to a penurious, and even to a sordid, boyhood. [Please select]
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So you see, Ethel, I may have appeared close and penurious, but now you understand why. [Please select]
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He vowed he wouldn't any longer submit to the penurious ways of the squire. [Please select]
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Everybody was very penurious for weeks beforehand and hoards were counted scrutinizingly every day. [Please select]
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The King was saving and penurious in his habits that he might have the more money to buy votes. [Please select]
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Joe Tucker was a strictly economical and saving woman--some even called her penurious--and the loss of ten cents troubled her. [Please select]
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This was a penurious, close-fisted German, who hated them because, as he said, 'they ate his _peas_.' [Please select]
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These walls gave the rough, penurious aspect which was in such sharp contrast to the exotic mystery they guarded. [Please select]
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