Definition of Penurious

Adjective

  • excessively unwilling to spend
    "parsimonious thrift relieved by few generous impulses"
    "lived in a most penurious manner--denying himself every indulgence"
  • not having enough money to pay for necessities
    - hard up - in straitened circumstances
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394 unscramble word found using the letters penurious.

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