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Penuriousness   Listen
Penuriousness

noun
1.
A state of lacking money.  Synonyms: impecuniousness, pennilessness.
2.
A disposition to be niggardly with money.





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"Penuriousness" Quotes from Famous Books



... can read it in my shabby clothes. I sometimes see the boys looking at my poor suit, as if they wondered why I dressed so badly. Smith has more than once cast insulting looks at my rusty coat. It is not penuriousness, as some of the boys may think—it is poverty that prevents me ...
— Hector's Inheritance - or The Boys of Smith Institute • Horatio Alger


Words linked to "Penuriousness" :   stinginess, penurious, poorness, poverty, impecuniousness, impoverishment


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