Thesaurus / penurious

penurious

How to use penurious in a sentence

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.

There are beings so dejected—so penurious—that this swearing constitutes their whole store of worldly opulence.

No; but even in the most penurious times it was kings who were the patrons.

THE NEW SOCIETYWALTHER RATHENAU

If one were ever penurious, might it not be of these handsome loaves of hers?

One would suppose that such a mother would have every want supplied, even by a penurious son.

The sluggish man will have only prudence; the penurious, economy; the extravagant, generosity.

He has likewise written comedies, and his contemporaries have not been, penurious in their eulogiums.

Though mean and penurious, he could not brook meanness in others.

She grew rich, and the richer she grew the more penurious she became.

Spoken to them who are careful and penurious in some trifling things, but neglective in the main chance.

SYNONYM OF THE DAY

OCTOBER 26, 1985