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penurious

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9 lettersPronunciation /pəˈnjʊə.ɹi.əs/Part of speech adjectiveSorted einoprsuuStarts with PEnds with S0 clues
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Definitions

  1. 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.

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