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What is a penury?

What is a penury? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. Extreme want; poverty; destitution.
  2. A lack of something; a dearth.
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They realize that their reduction to penury is due to discrimination against their blackness on the part of whites and blacks alike.
If we all looked, acted, thought and behaved as badly as spammers do, our world would be reduced to desperate penury.
Stamp's father was a stoker on the Thames boats and the family lived in the East End in near penury.
Instead he is modeling himself on the party's alchemist who rebuilt the welfare state and ran a budget surplus in a time of penury.
In overcoming that penury, modern technology as well as economic interrelations have been influential.
But despite his outstanding gifts he's soon in penury again because the crocodile he has adopted is scaring off potential clients.

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