penurious
Collocations
4ADJ.
poor
VERB + PENURIOUS
died
PENURIOUS + NOUN
dollars, horde, naught, stew, wretch
PREP.
in
Definitions
adj
Miserly; excessively cheap.
The old man died a penurious wretch; eighty-thousand dollars in the mattress and as many holes in the roof.
Not bountiful; thin; scant.
The penurious stew would have been more accurately labelled broth.
Impoverished; wanting for money.
The poor penurious horde, naught in the cooking pot and naught in the belly.
As the Swindon, Marlborough & Andover, conceived in 1872 and opened between the first two places in 1881 and to Andover and the L.S.W.R. in 1883, it was one of many small, ambitious and penurious Victorian lines, deeply concerned in the skulduggery characteristic of inter-railway dealings of that age and vexed by the G.W.R.
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Synonyms
adjective — excessively unwilling to spend
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Idioms & Phrases
Example Bank
3The old man died a penurious wretch; eighty-thousand dollars in the mattress and as many holes in the roof.
WiktionaryThe penurious stew would have been more accurately labelled broth.
WiktionaryThe poor penurious horde, naught in the cooking pot and naught in the belly.
Wiktionary