1. penurious - Adjective
2. penurious - Adjective Satellite
Excessively sparing in the use of money; sordid; stingy; miserly.
Not bountiful or liberal; scanty.
Destitute of money; suffering extreme want.
Source: Webster's dictionaryparsimonious thrift relieved by few generous impulses Source: Internet
lived in a most penurious manner--denying himself every indulgence Source: Internet
Her sister Charlotte's remarriage in 1798 to the pamphleteer Ralph Broome caused her and her father further consternation, as did the move by her sister Susanna and penurious brother-in-law Molesworth Phillips and their family to Ireland in 1796. Source: Internet
The White Sox players all intensely disliked Comiskey and his penurious ways, but were powerless to do anything, thanks to baseball's so-called "reserve clause", that prevented players from switching teams without their team owner's consent. Source: Internet
The cautious and penurious Ickes won out over the more imaginative Hugh S. Johnson as chief of public works administration. Source: Internet