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penury::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | indigence, need, pauperism, pauperization |
| Type of | impoverishment, poorness, poverty |
| Has types | beggary, mendicancy, mendicity |
| Derivation | penurious |
Examples of penury
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Surely, a lonely retirement spent in penury is the last thing she needs to fear.
From the thisismoney.co.uk
If I earn $10 million and I pay $5 million in taxes I am not exactly in penury.
From the economist.com
Robert the liberator was a disinterested ruler who spent the crown into penury.
From the entertainment.time.com
Why should an artist take a vow of penury, or for that matter his or her gallery ?
From the guardian.co.uk
Democracy's birthplace has plunged abruptly from apparent affluence to penury.
From the newscientist.com
He subsequently fled to England where he has lived ever since in a state of penury.
From the time.com
This one is Tom Rakewell, whose spendthrift ways lead to penury and madness.
From the post-gazette.com
Aid workers say that in reality the nation has been driven deep into penury.
From the economist.com
For these most aggrieved public servants are hardly facing thankless penury.
From the thisismoney.co.uk
- Indigence: a state of extreme poverty or destitution; "their indigence appalled him"; "a general state of need exists among the homeless"
- (penurious) hard up: not having enough money to pay for necessities
- (penurious) parsimonious: excessively unwilling to spend; "parsimonious thrift relieved by few generous impulses"; "lived in a most penurious manner--denying himself every indulgence"
- Poverty is the lack of basic human needs, such as clean water, nutrition, health care, education, clothing and shelter, because of the inability to afford them. This is also referred to as absolute poverty or destitution. ...
- Extreme want; poverty; destitution; a lack of something; a dearth; barrenness; insufficiency
- (penurious) Miserly; excessively cheap; Not bountiful; thin; scant; Impoverished; wanting for money
- (penurious (42)) Poverty-stricken or destitute.
- (penurious) poor, indigent, miserly
- [ Prov 14: 23; Lk 21: 4] needy, want of property; indigence, extreme poverty.
