penurious
adjective
extremely stingy; parsimonious; miserly.
penuriously
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a word derived from
penurious.
Example Sentences
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Plenty of working families are raising children and having fruitful social lives on median incomes or even less: Living thriftily is not the same as living penuriously or meanly.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 10, 2025
Generally, schools hire two kinds of adjuncts: the penuriously trapped who rely on their table-crumbs pay and those who have incomes elsewhere.
From Washington Post
As a young man he lives penuriously on what he can get by writing for the Yiddish-language newspapers.
From Time Magazine Archive
Martine herself lived at Sainte-Marthe, in a retired corner, so penuriously that she must be still saving even out of her small income.
From Doctor Pascal by Mary J. (Mary Jane) Serrano
He lived so penuriously that his income must have accumulated for many years.
From The Manor House School by Arthur A. Dixon
