penurious

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There his followers learn about his penurious childhood and his own children's lives.

From BBC • Apr. 17, 2023

China is increasingly likely to grow old before it gets rich, consigning hundreds of millions of Chinese to a penurious and often lonely old age.

From Seattle Times • Jan. 18, 2023

For me, the real tragedy of “Spencer” was the penurious use of Sally Hawkins.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 8, 2021

At The Fort Worth Press, a penurious operation, he quickly rose to sports editor and held his young reporters to strict standards, castigating them regularly for tardiness, flowery writing, overseriousness and factual mistakes.

From New York Times • Apr. 30, 2016

Scrub′by, laborious and penurious: mean: small: stunted in growth: covered with scrub.—ns.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 4 of 4: S-Z and supplements) by Various