The penurious manager did not earn the respect and admiration of the staff. From LearnThat.org.
And I think they made him penurious, which was funny. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Oct 3, 2002] Reference
Marguerite Blessington's youth was ill-regulated and penurious. From Wordnik.com. [Some Old Time Beauties After Portraits by the English Masters, with Embellishment and Comment] Reference
They are very dirty, and excessively penurious, but industrious. From Wordnik.com. [Journals of Travels in Assam, Burma, Bhootan, Afghanistan and the Neighbouring Countries] Reference
Sure, you'll be forced to live a penurious existence after that. From Wordnik.com. [Slouching Toward Medicare] Reference
Could she consent to be his wife in his present penurious situation?. From Wordnik.com. [Alonzo and Melissa The Unfeeling Father] Reference
Thirdly, he was not penurious, following the example of the righteous. From Wordnik.com. [Hebraic Literature; Translations from the Talmud, Midrashim and Kabbala] Reference
Their Wealth has rather a Tendency to make them penurious and selfish. From Wordnik.com. [John Adams diary 16, 10 January 1771 - 28 [i.e. 27] November 1772] Reference
The sums they accumulated by their penurious way of living, were immense. From Wordnik.com. [On the Portraits of English Authors on Gardening, with Biographical Notices of Them, 2nd edition, with considerable additions] Reference
If one were ever penurious, might it not be of these handsome loaves of hers?. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 16, No. 97, November, 1865] Reference
Frederick, though sometimes superb in his expenses, was habitually penurious. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 56, Number 348] Reference
He had traced the man to one of the most penurious streets in the metropolis. From Wordnik.com. [The Last Man] Reference
In private and public expenditures he was extremely economical, but not penurious. From Wordnik.com. [Memoirs of the Union's Three Great Civil War Generals] Reference
It was not the Honorable, it was not De La Lande, it would not be penurious Benoit?. From Wordnik.com. [The Young Seigneur Or, Nation-Making] Reference
Providence should have made a boy's stomach in so careless and penurious a fashion. From Wordnik.com. [Green Valley] Reference
He was not -- he was penurious, but he w-- he did not have enough money very often. From Wordnik.com. [Coolidge: An America Enigma] Reference
So you see, Ethel, I may have appeared close and penurious, but now you understand why. From Wordnik.com. [How Ethel Hollister Became a Campfire Girl] Reference
Worse, it condemns him to a penurious old age that embarrasses his social-climbing son. From Wordnik.com. [Capital Pundits Parodied: An Anti-Mensch's Faux Memoirs] Reference
I am penurious, although I have changed my old harum-scarum habits with regard to money. From Wordnik.com. [The Romance Of Giovanni Calvotti From Coals Of Fire And Other Stories, Volume II. (of III.)] Reference
Hiram, although close and careful in all matters, is not what would be called penurious. From Wordnik.com. [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 5, No. 1, January, 1864] Reference
More and more people will slip into permanent unemployment, poverty, and penurious old age. From Wordnik.com. [Richard (RJ) Eskow: GOP's "Pledge" to Rob the Middle Class: No Jobs, No Health Care, No Security] Reference
All of them are born to the younger inhabitants of the more penurious corners of the Earth. From Wordnik.com. [And Then There Were Too Many] Reference
You know ensigns — their blood is boiling water, their circumstances generally penurious. From Wordnik.com. [The Idiot] Reference
Second, be generous and do not show a stingy and penurious disposition when in the company of ladies. From Wordnik.com. [Searchlights on Health: Light on Dark Corners A Complete Sexual Science and a Guide to Purity and Physical Manhood, Advice To Maiden, Wife, And Mother, Love, Courtship, And Marriage] Reference
Tall persons are rarely mean, though often grasping; but very penurious persons are often broad-built. From Wordnik.com. [Searchlights on Health: Light on Dark Corners A Complete Sexual Science and a Guide to Purity and Physical Manhood, Advice To Maiden, Wife, And Mother, Love, Courtship, And Marriage] Reference
The skimping and saving will fall on me as much as on you, and skimping makes people mean and penurious. From Wordnik.com. [The Wind Before the Dawn] Reference
You cannot wish to involve Melissa in your present penurious condition, unless you wish to make her wretched. From Wordnik.com. [Alonzo and Melissa The Unfeeling Father] Reference
Abner Dimock had grown penurious, and not one cent of money was given for comfort in that house, scarce for need. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 22, August, 1859] Reference
The avarice of the penurious father then, in this print, is contrasted by the giddy profusion of his prodigal son. From Wordnik.com. [The Works of William Hogarth: In a Series of Engravings With Descriptions, and a Comment on Their Moral Tendency] Reference
But though I opened my mouth a few times and coughed once, I absolutely did not dare to propose such a penurious plan. From Wordnik.com. [Beatrice Leigh at College A Story for Girls] Reference
His business was extensive -- his habits mean, penurious; his credit was unlimited, as his character was unimpeachable. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 54, No. 337, November, 1843] Reference
I believe in being thrifty, but the way some of those people saved up their hunger for our dinner was too penurious for mine. From Wordnik.com. [Skiddoo!] Reference
This is the first intimation we have yet received of any noticeable tendency to penurious economy on the part of the Government. From Wordnik.com. [Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 156, April 2, 1919] Reference
When three German bankers face one penurious English client, it is self-evident that their English will be superior to his German. From Wordnik.com. [Absolute Friends]
Neither lavish nor penurious, but an Example of Industry as well as of other Vertues: Therefore our great Loss tho 'her own Eternal. From Wordnik.com. [Highways & Byways in Sussex] Reference
A moment later their friend with the penurious and harsh appearance, the same one who on that first day had sneered so malevolently. From Wordnik.com. [Within a Budding Grove] Reference
Passaic as seen from the Erie Railroad — altogether a frantic, oddly extravagant, oddly penurious attempt to make a cheerful room. From Wordnik.com. [Flappers and Philosophers] Reference
Their penurious lord keeps down their pin-money to the lowest point, and is not more liberal to his ladies than to his other subjects. From Wordnik.com. [Travels in Morocco] Reference
Equip with the most modern, technologically sophisticated weapons systems money can buy, not bargain-basement artifacts of penurious whim. From Wordnik.com. [Safe Ways To Play The Defense Sector] Reference
Despite their penurious situation, both Steimberg and her younger brother Oscar (b. 1936), a well-known semiologist, studied at university. From Wordnik.com. [Alicia Steimberg.] Reference
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