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Not observing that the President Rose, who was very penurious, had put his money in the hat, he presented it to him a second time.
THE BOOK OF ANECDOTES AND BUDGET OF FUN;VARIOUSThere are beings so dejected—so penurious—that this swearing constitutes their whole store of worldly opulence.
A CURSORY HISTORY OF SWEARINGJULIAN SHARMANNo; but even in the most penurious times it was kings who were the patrons.
THE NEW SOCIETYWALTHER RATHENAUIf one were ever penurious, might it not be of these handsome loaves of hers?
THE ATLANTIC MONTHLY, VOLUME 16, NO. 97, NOVEMBER, 1865VARIOUSOne would suppose that such a mother would have every want supplied, even by a penurious son.
CHOICE READINGS FOR THE HOME CIRCLEANONYMOUSThe sluggish man will have only prudence; the penurious, economy; the extravagant, generosity.
BOUVARD AND PCUCHET, PART 2GUSTAVE FLAUBERTHe has likewise written comedies, and his contemporaries have not been, penurious in their eulogiums.
CURIOSITIES OF LITERATURE, VOL. 1 (OF 3)ISAAC D'ISRAELIThough mean and penurious, he could not brook meanness in others.
THE FUNNY SIDE OF PHYSICA. D. CRABTREShe grew rich, and the richer she grew the more penurious she became.
THE BONDMANHALL CAINESpoken to them who are careful and penurious in some trifling things, but neglective in the main chance.
THE PROVERBS OF SCOTLANDALEXANDER HISLOPWORDS RELATED TO PENURIOUS
- bankrupt
- beggared
- bereft
- busted
- dead broke
- deficient
- depleted
- deprived of
- devoid of
- dirt poor
- divested
- drained
- empty
- exhausted
- flat
- flat broke
- impecunious
- impoverished
- in need of
- indigent
- insolvent
- lacking
- moneyless
- necessitous
- needy
- on the breadline
- on the rocks
- penniless
- penurious
- pinched
- played-out
- poor
- poverty-stricken
- stony
- strapped
- stripped
- totaled
- wiped-out
- without
- avaricious
- canny
- chary
- circumspect
- close
- closefisted
- cost-effective
- curmudgeonly
- efficient
- frugal
- meager
- mean
- methodical
- miserly
- money-saving
- on the rims
- parsimonious
- penny-pinching
- penny-wise
- penurious
- practical
- provident
- prudent
- prudential
- saving
- scrimping
- skimping
- spare
- sparing
- stingy
- thrifty
- tight
- time-saving
- unwasteful
- watchful
- work-saving
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