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What does penurious mean?

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Adjective
  1. Miserly; excessively cheap.
  2. Not bountiful; thin; scant.
  3. Impoverished; wanting for money.
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He is encouraged by the fact that the penurious state of the game is forcing Scottish clubs to offer greater opportunities to youngsters.
His poems continuously make us understand the penurious effects of genocide in communal riots.
Your plan to spend everything you have and more as soon as possible seems a certain recipe for a penurious old age.
The garish festivities are set in one of the world's most penurious places.
Once some penurious student has finished loading up a piece of art into her van, it immediately gains in value.
Was the students' act bordering on something like savagery when they took advantage of the workers' penurious state?

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