penurious
adjective
formaluk/pəˈnjʊə.ri.əs/us/pəˈnjʊr.i.ri.əs/extremelypoor
赤贫的Synonyms
impecuniousformal
indigentformal
penniless
poor(NO MONEY)
Opposites
rich(MONEY)
well off(RICH)
Examplesofpenurious
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Competing titles collide not only with each other, but with low purchasing power in vast areas of the world, withpenuriouslibraries, and with competition from the visual media.
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Again this is not an inevitable guillotine hanging over the neck of apenuriousand deserted wife.
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I have reached the stage when my children support themselves and are looking forward to supporting me in apenuriousold age.
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The sums were showered in a plentiful rain upon the evil and the good, upon the wealthy and thepenurious.
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The savings of the past—in many, many apenuriousway it must have been saved up by people who saved it!
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They meet with what some of us are rather inclined to think ignorance and stupidity and a tendency to bepenurious.
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The county council are necessarily and naturallypenuriousand timid about investing money in land.
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I have lived among people who led very hard andpenuriouslives from the time they were born until the day they died.
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The clause was really directed against an entirely different class—the negligent owner or thepenuriousowner, or, worst of all, the speculating owner.
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It is in apenuriouscondition, but some special accident takes place and makes the circumstances even worse.
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They have been imposed on them by the rigidity of a commodity pricing system and apenuriousbanking system which drags money from the poorest to pay to the richest.
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What should happen in ourpenuriousstate?
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My right honourable friend does not think that there is any great likelihood of the morepenuriousundertakings being asked to undertake their due functioning measures.
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Instead of "penurious"the word should be"pecuniary".
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He was not well liked by his men and was once described as "thispenuriousold reptile".
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