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We ask only that you will not be penurious with your money.

It was here, during the penurious period after the war, that he came to live and paint.

It was sometimes used by penurious governments to reduce costs.

Her father's untimely death put the family in a penurious situation.

But the price was right for penurious law students: seventy-five dollars a month.

The face with its penurious mouth said, 7 won't give you a damned thing.

As used cars become more reliable, they no longer carry a penurious stigma.

So that is another sign of spring in Albany: penurious lawmakers.

"19 Democrats are never so penurious about taxpayer money as when it comes to the defense of the nation.

He had traced the man to one of the most penurious streets in the metropolis.

Freelance journalism was a penurious occupation, unless you were good at it.

"They have always had a very penurious attitude."

Most economists said they did not think that Sweden could endure the effects of such penurious interest rates for long.

It's practically brand new and you know how penurious we clergy can be."

He who is born a ruler, and maintains a foreign army, governing by fear, should be penurious.

The penurious White Sox, meanwhile, have moved in the opposite direction.

Belgium is a small country, its politicians notoriously penurious.

I am no longer heeded, my vogue is a memory Discredited, penurious.

Congress was nowhere near as penurious as you suggest.

It is like some penurious patrician who has sunk into the company of his inferiors.

The album took a year to do, and it was successful enough to enable Russell to escape his penurious lifestyle.

He was not well liked by his men and was once described as "this penurious old reptile".

Miami earned a reputation for being penurious en route to winning titles.

A bright, shiny Rolex would have mocked me every day of my penurious existence.

What might be extravagant today, might in half a century become penurious and inadequate."