penuriousness
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As I’ve pointed out before, accounts of the penuriousness of life on such an income invariably involve financial legerdemain.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 10, 2024
At Ryanair headquarters, he cultivated a reputation for penuriousness, banning cover sheets on faxes and requiring employees to buy their own pens.
From BusinessWeek ● Sep. 2, 2010
It went on to become a symbol of penuriousness.
From Time Magazine Archive
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For all his penuriousness, Russell does not hesitate to spend for new plant and equipment.
From Time Magazine Archive
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The ragged guards around, clad in their miserable butternut suits, growled many uncomplimentary allusions to the penuriousness of their own government, in contrast with the munificence of ours.
From Daring and Suffering: A History of the Great Railroad Adventure by William Pittenger