penurious

Estimated CEFR level: C2 — Proficiency

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From Medieval Latin pēnūriōsus. See penury from Latin penuria (“want”), related to paene (“scarcely”), c. 1400. Compare French pénurie.

You know ensigns—their blood is boiling water, their circumstances generally penurious. — The Idiot, Fyodor Dostoyevsky
"Yep," said Mr. Lamson, who was too penurious to waste words. — The Daughter of Anderson Crow, George Barr McCutcheon
The young man as a beginner should avoid stingy and penurious methods. — Twenty Years of Hus'ling, J. P. (James Perry) Johnston

hard up, impecunious, in straitened circumstances, penniless, pinched

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