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P________
Definitions
excessively unwilling to spend
Word origin
From Medieval Latin pēnūriōsus. See penury from Latin penuria (“want”), related to paene (“scarcely”), c. 1400. Compare French pénurie.
Used in a sentence
“The old man died a penurious wretch; eighty-thousand dollars in the mattress and as many holes in the roof.”
“The penurious stew would have been more accurately labelled broth.”
“The poor penurious horde, naught in the cooking pot and naught in the belly.”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
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