Penury - Law Dictionary Search Results

Indigence

being indigent lack of estate or means of comfortable subsistence penury poverty as helpless indigence

Absence of resources want privation indigence extreme poverty destitution

the wants or demands deficiency lack of plenty short supply penury as a scarcity of grain a great scarcity of beauties

Penuriousness

Covetous penurious stingy closefisted

Exhibiting parsimony sparing in expenditure of money frugal to excess penurious niggardly stingy

Excessively sparing in the use of money sordid stingy miserly

In a scant manner not fully or sufficiently narrowly penuriously

A penurious person a miser a niggard