penurious
extremely stingy, or marked by extreme poverty
Penurious in a sentence
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His penurious uncle refused to spend a cent on anything but necessities.
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The committee dismissed the proposal as blank, pointing out that its projected revenues depended on conditions no economy had ever sustained.
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