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What does penurious mean?

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Adjective
  1. Miserly; excessively cheap.
  2. Not bountiful; thin; scant.
  3. Impoverished; wanting for money.
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Your plan to spend everything you have and more as soon as possible seems a certain recipe for a penurious old age.
Once some penurious student has finished loading up a piece of art into her van, it immediately gains in value.
He is encouraged by the fact that the penurious state of the game is forcing Scottish clubs to offer greater opportunities to youngsters.
It is rather penurious reasoning too, knowing what we know about the geo-strategic priorities of the United States at this conjuncture.
The garish festivities are set in one of the world's most penurious places.
His poems continuously make us understand the penurious effects of genocide in communal riots.

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