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penuriousness
noun as in poverty
Strong matches
- abjection
- aridity
- bankruptcy
- barrenness
- beggary
- dearth
- debt
- deficiency
- deficit
- depletion
- destitution
- difficulty
- distress
- emptiness
- exiguity
- famine
- hardship
- impecuniousness
- impoverishment
- inadequacy
- indigence
- insolvency
- insufficiency
- lack
- meagerness
- necessity
- need
- neediness
- pass
- paucity
- pauperism
- pennilessness
- penury
- pinch
- poorness
- privation
- reduction
- scarcity
- shortage
- starvation
- straits
- underdevelopment
- vacancy
- want
Weak matches
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Example Sentences
Economy without penuriousness, liberality without prodigality!
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There are other persons who, though they cannot in all cases be censured for penuriousness, have imbibed a very pernicious error.
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"I could put my overcoat in one seat," Forbes groaned, at this added irony in his loneliness and penuriousness.
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I blushed for this pettiness amid grandeur, and penuriousness surrounded by luxury.
From Project Gutenberg
This is enough to make up for any degree of scientific penuriousness or jealousy.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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