| 词汇 | penurious |
| 释义 | penurious adjective formaluk /pəˈnjʊə.ri.əs/ us /pəˈnjʊr.i.ri.əs/ extremely poor赤贫的 Synonyms destitute hard upinformal impecuniousformal impoverishedformal indigentformal needy penniless poor(NO MONEY) poverty-stricken Opposites rich(MONEY) well off(RICH) Examples of penuriouspenurious Competing titles collide not only with each other, but with low purchasing power in vast areas of the world, with penurious libraries, and with competition from the visual media. Again this is not an inevitable guillotine hanging over the neck of a penurious and deserted wife. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I have reached the stage when my children support themselves and are looking forward to supporting me in a penurious old age. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The sums were showered in a plentiful rain upon the evil and the good, upon the wealthy and the penurious. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The savings of the past—in many, many a penurious way it must have been saved up by people who saved it! From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 They meet with what some of us are rather inclined to think ignorance and stupidity and a tendency to be penurious. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The county council are necessarily and naturally penurious and timid about investing money in land. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I have lived among people who led very hard and penurious lives from the time they were born until the day they died. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The clause was really directed against an entirely different class—the negligent owner or the penurious owner, or, worst of all, the speculating owner. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 It is in a penurious condition, but some special accident takes place and makes the circumstances even worse. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 They have been imposed on them by the rigidity of a commodity pricing system and a penurious banking system which drags money from the poorest to pay to the richest. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 What should happen in our penurious state? From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 My right honourable friend does not think that there is any great likelihood of the more penurious undertakings being asked to undertake their due functioning measures. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Instead of "penurious"the word should be"pecuniary". From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 He was not well liked by his men and was once described as "this penurious old reptile". From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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