Crossword-Solution: PENURIOUS
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Penurious | a. | Excessively sparing in the use of money; sordid; stingy; miserly. |
| Penurious | a. | Not bountiful or liberal; scanty. |
| Penurious | a. | Destitute of money; suffering extreme want. |
We have 40 clues for the answer “PENURIOUS”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Broke or miserly | 1 answer |
| LACKING necessities of life | 11 answers |
| Wolfish | 17 answers |
| BAD OFF | 24 answers |
| raptorial | 27 answers |
| Plundering. | 27 answers |
| hawklike | 28 answers |
| ravening | 28 answers |
| predacious | 29 answers |
| ravaging | 29 answers |
| grabbing | 29 answers |
| thieving | 30 answers |
| pillaging | 31 answers |
| extortionate | 32 answers |
| Taking | 34 answers |
| predatory | 35 answers |
| insatiable | 36 answers |
| Rapacious | 36 answers |
| Acquisitive | 40 answers |
| Voracious | 40 answers |
| Impecunious | 40 answers |
| Parsimonious | 42 answers |
| avaricious | 44 answers |
| grudging | 44 answers |
| Hard up | 44 answers |
| Gluttonous | 44 answers |
| greedy | 45 answers |
| Covetous | 47 answers |
| grasping | 48 answers |
| dirt poor | 48 answers |
| Stingy | 51 answers |
| Indigent | 55 answers |
| starving | 58 answers |
| Famished | 58 answers |
| starved | 60 answers |
| miserly | 64 answers |
| Hungry | 68 answers |
| Destitute | 72 answers |
| stealing | 72 answers |
| Poor | 92 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
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greedy person
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Sentences with PENURIOUS (5)
Also in their penurious, laborious character; the individual only satisfies his necessary appetites, and confines his expenditure to them; his other desires he subdues, under the idea that they are unprofitable.
She did not save this money for any ulterior purpose, she hoarded instinctively, without knowing why, responding to the dentist's remonstrances with: “Yes, yes, I know I'm a little miser, I know it.” Trina had always been an economical little body, but it was only since her great winning in the lottery that she had become especially penurious.
The penurious, parsimonious, and miserly save money by disgraceful selfÐdenial, and the niggardly by meanness in their dealing with others.
But now his mother sits alone by the side of Fontainebleau woods, where he gathered mushrooms in his hardy and penurious youth.
Will you? It won’t be quite the same as old times, but it will be something to look forward to when I’m reading the endless paragraphs about your fashionable political wedding.” “You’re looking forward pretty far,” laughed Youghal; “the lady may take your view as to the probable unhappiness of a future shared with me, and I may have to content myself with penurious political bachelorhood.
Quotes with PENURIOUS (2)
One of the problems of the vacation is money, father.”“Oh, I shouldn’t worry about a thing like that at your age.”“You see, I’ve run rather short.”“Yes?” said my father without any sound of interest.“In fact I don’t quite know how I’m going to get through the next two months.”“Well, I’m the worst person to come to for advice. I’ve never been ‘short’ as you so painfully call it. And yet what else could you say? Hard up? Penurious? Distressed? Embarrassed? Stony-broke?” (Snuffl…
Sisters are brittle things. God was penurious with me, which makes me shrewd with Him. One is a dainty sum! One bird, one cage, one flight; one song in those far woods, as yet suspected by faith only!