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Penuriously

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Adverb

1. penuriously

in a penurious manner

Example Sentences:
'they lived penuriously'

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Penuriously

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adjective
1. 
niggardly with money
2. 
lacking money or means
3. 
yielding little; scanty

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Penuriously

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adjective
1. 
unwilling to part with money or possessions; mean; miserly; stingy
2. 
characterized by extreme poverty; impoverished

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

Penuriously

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adj.
1. Poverty-stricken; destitute.
2. Unwilling to spend money; stingy.
3. Scanty or meager: "an allowance of cold meat and bread, in the same penurious proportion observed in our ordinary meals" (Charlotte Brontë).

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