| 单词 | penurious |
| 释义 | penurious (once / 11988 pages) adj Don't have two nickels to rub together? You're penurious — a lovely long way of saying you're flat broke. Penurious also means a general dislike of spending money. If someone accuses you of being cheap, tell them you prefer to be thought of as penurious. It sounds so much classier. It's related to a similar word, penury, which means "a state of extreme poverty." WORD FAMILYpenurious: penuriously, penuriousness+/penury: penuries, penurious USAGE EXAMPLESLedecky’s stance is a far cry from Wang’s penurious tenure, during which the Islanders rarely sought out high-priced free agents. New York Times(Jul 13, 2016) New England poems by New England writers: they made a penurious, infinite kind of New England sense. The New Yorker(Jul 05, 2016) That image — of a penurious outsider thrown into the deep end of the Hollywood glamour pool — encapsulates Sandberg’s strange story. Los Angeles Times(Jun 08, 2016) 1adj excessively unwilling to spend lived in a most penurious manner--denying himself every indulgence Syn parsimonious stingy, ungenerous unwilling to spend 2adj not having enough money to pay for necessities Syn hard up, impecunious, in straitened circumstances, penniless, pinched poor having little money or few possessions |
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