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penurious
Not bountiful; thin; scant

The penurious stew would have been more accurately labelled broth.

Impoverished; wanting for money

The poor penurious horde, naught in the cooking pot and naught in the belly.

Miserly; excessively cheap

The old man died a penurious wretch; eighty-thousand dollars in the mattress and as many holes in the roof.

{a} sparing, niggardly, mean, scanty
excessively sparing in the use of money
Excessively sparing in the use of money; sordid; stingy; miserly
{s} poor, indigent; stingy, miserly
Destitute of money; suffering extreme want
excessively unwilling to spend; "parsimonious thrift relieved by few generous impulses"; "lived in a most penurious manner--denying himself every indulgence"
not having enough money to pay for necessities
Not bountiful or liberal; scanty
sehr arm sein
to live hand-to-mouth
Er war sehr arm, woraus sich sein Sparsamkeit erklärt.
He was very poor, whence his habit of saving money