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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



... hole in the wainscoting for yours. Your dogmas and inculcations sound to me like the last words of a bicycle pump. What has your high moral, elevator-service system of pillage brought you to? Penuriousness and want. Even Brother Peters, who insists upon contaminating the art of robbery with theories of commerce and trade, admitted he was on the lift. Both of you live by the gilded rule. Brother Peters,' says Bill, 'you'd better choose a slice of ...
— The Gentle Grafter • O. Henry
... had borne so well and so long—a spell of peaceful twilight before the gray shadows of everlasting darkness closed, or the brightness of eternal light broke upon her! Yes, she would stand four-square against the steely terrors of John Liddell's cold egotism and penuriousness, against the desolation and gloom of his forbidding abode, the crushing sordidness of an existence reduced to the merest straws of sustenance, provided she could lighten her mother's load—perhaps secure her future ease; and ...
— A Crooked Path - A Novel • Mrs. Alexander


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


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