1
as in economy
the quality or practice of being overly sparing with money
he daily practiced such penuriousness that few would have guessed that he was one of the state's wealthiest residents
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as in poverty
the state of lacking sufficient money or material possessions
the abject penuriousness of so many of the city's inhabitants should be a cause for concern
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for penuriousness
Noun
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On international flights, premium economy typically means a bigger, more plush seat with extra legroom and better service from meals to amenity kits.—
Zach Wichter,
USA Today,
11 Oct. 2025 -
But the Jones drama has overshadowed other key topics in the race, including the government shutdown, reduction-in-force notices, and their effect on the Virginia economy, where federal workers make up a sizable portion of the workforce.—
Mabinty Quarshie,
The Washington Examiner,
11 Oct. 2025
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This poverty is felt particularly hard by the young people of the nation.—
Rebecca Schneid,
Time,
14 Oct. 2025
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Tedesco's dad worked hard to get out of poverty and she and her husband, through their own careers, eventually achieved a comfortable life.—
Nushrat Rahman,
Freep.com,
14 Oct. 2025
Noun
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Recent cheapness in the muni market was driven by heavy issuance.—
Paul Malloy,
Fortune,
4 Oct. 2025
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Also important to note, diversity is not the same thing as accessibility, and neither are inherently tied to cheapness.—
Victoria Uwumarogie,
Essence,
17 Sep. 2025
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These sequences feel so siloed off that the misery never informs the majesty, and vice versa.—
David Fear,
Rolling Stone,
11 Oct. 2025
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That would be a fine enough place to end the story, and in Garrett’s original screenplay, the final pages only extended that misery.—
Kate Erbland,
IndieWire,
10 Oct. 2025
Noun
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The Reds, in the reddest of ink and starkest of contrasts, have become synonymous with stinginess under Bob Castellini’s ownership.—
Steven Louis Goldstein,
New York Times,
30 Sep. 2025
Noun
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When are the time changes for daylight saving time?—
Marina Johnson,
Louisville Courier Journal,
15 Oct. 2025
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Next year, daylight saving time will begin again on Sunday, March 8, 2026.—
Kinsey Crowley,
USA Today,
15 Oct. 2025
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The Aeneid has a special relevance for the United States, a country founded by immigrants who fled from earlier homelands, often believing that divine providence justified their claim on a land already inhabited by many distinct groups of indigenous peoples.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
3 Sep. 2025
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Does providence foreordain or do characters have a say?—
Judith Shulevitz,
The Atlantic,
10 Aug. 2025
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No act of parsimony shrinks the size of government either.—
John Tamny,
Forbes.com,
21 June 2025
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The parsimony has so far delivered one FA Cup and an on-field blueprint as devoid of life as most others since the Ferguson era ended.—
Phil Hay,
The Athletic,
25 Feb. 2025
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“Penuriousness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/penuriousness. Accessed 19 Oct. 2025.
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