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Adjective: penurious  pi'nyű-ree-us
  1. Not having enough money to pay for necessities
    - hard up, impecunious, in straitened circumstances, penniless, pinched, badly-off
     
  2. Excessively unwilling to spend
    "lived in a most penurious manner--denying himself every indulgence"
    - parsimonious

See also: penuriously, penuriousness, penury, poor, stingy, ungenerous

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