penurious
pe nyooh ree uhs
- s not having enough money to pay for necessities
- s excessively unwilling to spend
lived in a most penurious manner--denying himself every indulgence
- In these days of penurious peers and vanishing stately homes, how can one tell whether an Englishman is a genuine member of the Upper Class? Last week, in a slim anthology of .
- In The Star-Spangled Girl, a pair of post-Ivy League rebels share a dropout of an apartment with penurious satisfaction until a girl who looks like a whipped-cream frapp shows up .
- Tidy and penurious, he was described by a friend as "a good husband, a loving father, a conscientious bureaucrat.