Penurious is valid Scrabble Word

Is penurious a scrabble word?
Official Scrabble Players Dictionary YES
Official Tournament and Club Word List YES
Collins Scrabble Words YES
Is penurious valid Words with Friends?
Words with Friends YES

9 letters word
11 points in Scrabble
15 points in WWF

Definitions for PENURIOUS in dictionary:

ADJECTIVE:

poor; mean
characterized by poverty
extremely poor; poverty-stricken
unwilling to spend money; mean
niggardly with money
Excessively sparing in the use of money; sordid; stingy; miserly.
Not bountiful or liberal; scanty.
Destitute of money; suffering extreme want.
not having enough money to pay for necessities
excessively unwilling to spend

OTHER DEFINITIONS:

marked by or suffering from penury

Words related to PENURIOUS

penuriously16 penuriousness15

Words that contain PENURIOUS

penuriously16 penuriousness15 penuriousnesses17

How to use PENURIOUS in a sentence

It is not that we are poorer or more penurious than our ancestors, but that we have more wants than they, and that the new wants overshadow the old.
I have told Governor Nicholson my fears, and he is of my opinion, but his hands are tied by a penurious Council.
He mentioned a respectable gentleman, who became extremely penurious near the close of his life.
What might be extravagant to-day, might in half a century become penurious and inadequate.
Their broadest pleasantries failed to raise a smile, and the coarse realities of a narrow, penurious existence had no power to disturb his happy serenity.
Though setting a high value upon money, Madam Conway was not penurious, and the bridal trousseau far exceeded anything which Theo had expected.
His mode of life, as usual, was miserable and penurious in the extreme.
He began to recall their courting along this very walk, his years of penurious saving to get capital, and the bright hopefulness of his marrying days.
By this man I was maintained four months in penurious wickedness, and then abandoned to my former condition, from which I was delivered by another keeper.
He lived in the most penurious manner, and denied himself every indulgence.

That penurious and unprincipled villain is thirsting for your blood.
But the white men claimed the entire prize, loaded their extra sledges, liberally fed their dogs, and doled out but a penurious allotment of meat and blubber to the tribe.
There were but one or two of the neighbours who ever visited the Walters, for the master was too surly and the mistress too penurious to exchange hospitality with any one.
I believe in being thrifty, but the way some of those people saved up their hunger for our dinner was too penurious for mine.
In Christiania he spent some hard and penurious years, trying to make a livelihood as a journalist and man of letters.
He was a man of singularly penurious habits, allowing himself to be in want of necessary food, and neglecting cleanliness.
I have seldom been more impressed than with this small, simple, and almost penurious apartment, so striking in contrast with the splendour of the rest of the palace.
Very few members of the House of Peers are richer than Lord Blair, and still fewer more penurious.
Genius has a right to a penurious, and even to a sordid, boyhood.
It is the saddest of all sights upon this earth, that of a man lazy and luxurious, or hard and penurious, to whom want appeals in vain, and suffering cries in an unknown tongue.
They are very dirty, and excessively penurious, but industrious.
Those who are bountiful to crimes will be rigid to merit and penurious to service.
This penurious principle flatters not that egotism which great writers share in common with the heroes who have aimed at universal empire.
John Benham with all his stores of dollars had been obliged to come at last to a penurious philosopher to solve for his son the problem of life that had baffled the father.
Like so many other Orders at that time, its members moved first to France and then to Italy, where it has survived in penurious dignity ever since.

Similar words containing PENURIOU without suffix s

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