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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

This house was occupied, during the preceding months, by a Frenchman: his dress and demeanour were respectable: his mode of life was frugal almost to penuriousness, and his only companion was a daughter.

From Ormond, Volume I (of 3) or, The Secret Witness by Brown, Charles Brockden