penurious

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Even so, the general picture of a mother’s absence and a daughter’s understandable resentment at having had to pick up the maternal slack in penurious conditions comes through loud and clear.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 14, 2024

In a ruling July 28, McMahon called them “hapless, easily manipulated and penurious petty criminals” who had no connection to any terrorist group and had “never remotely contemplated” violent extremism before they met Hussain.

From Seattle Times • Aug. 7, 2023

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

From BBC • Apr. 17, 2023

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

She could not simply and passionately regret her father's loss, for the thought of her own friendless and penurious state would thrust itself into her consciousness.

From An Ambitious Woman A Novel by Fawcett, Edgar