Crossword-Solution: PENURY
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Penury | n. | Absence of resources; want; privation; indigence; extreme poverty; destitution. |
| Penury | n. | Penuriousness; miserliness. |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| PENURY | anagram | PRUNEY |
We have 37 clues for the answer “PENURY”
| Clue | Answers |
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| the state of being very poor | 1 answer |
| Destitute state | 1 answer |
| EXTREME FRUGALITY | 1 answer |
| Lack of money. | 1 answer |
| Problem of have-nots. | 1 answer |
| Severe circumstances | 1 answer |
| Severe frugality | 1 answer |
| Status in "for poorer" category. | 1 answer |
| To which Père Goriot is reduced. | 1 answer |
| Extreme want | 2 answers |
| Extreme dearth | 2 answers |
| Lack of all comforts and essentials | 2 answers |
| Extreme poverty | 4 answers |
| pauperism | 9 answers |
| A state of extreme poverty | 11 answers |
| neediness | 35 answers |
| poorness | 35 answers |
| impecuniousness | 35 answers |
| patchiness | 37 answers |
| beggarliness | 38 answers |
| dispossession | 39 answers |
| Indigence | 39 answers |
| impoverishment | 40 answers |
| privation | 40 answers |
| insolvency | 41 answers |
| destitution | 43 answers |
| scarceness | 44 answers |
| Arrears | 50 answers |
| DEBIT ___ | 53 answers |
| paucity | 57 answers |
| Scarcity | 61 answers |
| Poverty | 61 answers |
| undercurrent | 65 answers |
| Dearth | 65 answers |
| Hardship | 74 answers |
| Denial | 80 answers |
| Weakness | 80 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the
discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
Hint 2 anagram
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Hint 3 another clue
eruption
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Sentences with PENURY (5)
Elton’s notice and the penury of her conversation, rather than return to the superior companions who have always loved her with such real, generous affection.” Jane had come to Highbury professedly for three months; the Campbells were gone to Ireland for three months; but now the Campbells had promised their daughter to stay at least till Midsummer, and fresh invitations had arrived for her to join them there.
His mother explained to him her liberal designs, in case of his marrying Miss Morton; told him she would settle on him the Norfolk estate, which, clear of land-tax, brings in a good thousand a-year; offered even, when matters grew desperate, to make it twelve hundred; and in opposition to this, if he still persisted in this low connection, represented to him the certain penury that must attend the match.
Besides, a big house here, and especially in this quartier perdu, proves nothing at all: it is perfectly compatible with a state of penury.
The child’s physical well-being is the first essential in the mother’s eyes--the growth of a vigorous body by which a vigorous mind may be fitly tenanted--and this form of materialism which Tolstoy as a father accepted, Tolstoy as idealist condemned; while the penury he courted as a lightening of his soul’s burden was averted by the strenuous exertions of his wife.
Let not our souls be wrung, however, at contemplation of the luckless urchin cut off by parental penury from the rapture of new clothes.
Quotes with PENURY (3)
Ay, but to die, and go we know not where; To lie in cold obstruction and to rot; This sensible warm motion to become A kneaded clod; and the delighted spirit To bathe in fiery floods, or to reside In thrilling region of thick-ribbed ice; To be imprison'd in the viewless winds, And blown with restless violence round about The pendent world; or to be worse than worst Of those that lawless and incertain thought Imagine howling: 'tis too horrible! The weariest and most loathed wo…
Driven by a wish to save Tomás from a life of penury and misunderstanding, Fermin had decided that he needed to develop my friend's latent conversational and social skills. Like the good ape he is, man is a social animal, characterized by cronyism, nepotism, corruption, and gossip. That's the intrinsic blueprint for our ethical behavior.
Those who spend all they earn always end in penury.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: Boston Globe, Crossroads, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, New Yorker, NYT, Onion, Universal, WSJ.
Used 24 times in crossword archives (1950–2022).