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pe·nu·ri·ous [pəˈnjʊəriəs, Am -ˈnʊri-] ADJ form

Examples from the PONS Dictionary (editorially verified)

penurious conditions
penurious accommodation

Monolingual examples (not verified by PONS Editors)

English
It was here, during the penurious period after the war, that he came to live and paint.
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Matching plugs were also manufactured that let tube sockets be used as 8-pin electrical connectors; penurious experimenters would sometimes salvage the base from a discarded tube for this purpose.
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Her father's untimely death put the family in a penurious situation.
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The results are now all too apparent in the shuffling, penurious masses on the streets.
www.dailymail.co.uk
Though penurious in his personal habits he was fond of attending sales, and was a keen bidder for any object that struck his fancy.
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All the penurious penny pinchers do is create vacuums where essential work doesn't get done.
wcfcourier.com
The median income was a penurious $4500.
www.crikey.com.au
The poor, penurious chap is close to breaking point.
www.dailymail.co.uk
But the times they are a-changing, thanks to penurious times.
blogs.vancouversun.com
But in most cases the conditions from which these children were plucked were unsanitary, penurious, sociopathic, and hopeless.
news.nationalpost.com

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