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What does penurious mean?

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Adjective
  1. Miserly; excessively cheap.
  2. Not bountiful; thin; scant.
  3. Impoverished; wanting for money.
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Your plan to spend everything you have and more as soon as possible seems a certain recipe for a penurious old age.
He is encouraged by the fact that the penurious state of the game is forcing Scottish clubs to offer greater opportunities to youngsters.
Unlike the penurious English king, Louis provided substantial financial support for full-time investigation.
One promising effort is intended to increase the low personal savings rate in the U.S., which could doom many people to a penurious retirement.
It is rather penurious reasoning too, knowing what we know about the geo-strategic priorities of the United States at this conjuncture.
She never recovered from the Great Depression and lived a penurious existence to the end.

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