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penuriousness



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As I’ve pointed out before, accounts of the penuriousness of life on such an income invariably involve financial legerdemain.

From Los Angeles Times Jan. 10, 2024

At Ryanair headquarters, he cultivated a reputation for penuriousness, banning cover sheets on faxes and requiring employees to buy their own pens.

From BusinessWeek Sep. 2, 2010

For all his penuriousness, Russell does not hesitate to spend for new plant and equipment.

From Time Magazine Archive

It went on to become a symbol of penuriousness.

From Time Magazine Archive

For sake of gifts be not false, By denial, by penuriousness; For thy soul to thee is more precious By far than the gifts.

From The Irish Ecclesiastical Record, Volume 1, December 1864 by Various




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