penny pinching
excessively thrifty
ungenerous
not having enough money to pay for necessities
SYN - hard-up, impecunious, penniless
excessively unwilling to spend
SYN - parsimonious
ANT - rich
"lived in a most penurious manner, denying himself every indulgence"
"how could anyone think about the future, or going back to shcool when they were living in such a penurious state."
"Now that he was penurious, he actually found himself to feel more alive - he was so close to starving to death that he savored every bite, and each new day was someting he had earned through fighting through the previous one."
"she found his penurious ways despicable - but then again her own encounters of money could be described as evanescent."
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