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Перевод: penurious

[прилагательное]
бедный; скудный; скупой

Тезаурус:

1. The Desire and Pursuit of the Whole , published posthumously in 1934, mirrored these bitter and penurious years.
2. friend of Mrs Jarley, a penurious rhymester who makes up advertising jingles.
3. Before the accession of Roger-Bernard III, count of Foix, to Barn in 1290, its vicomtes had been relatively penurious.
4. Now penurious ("I live," she said, "from mouth to hand"), and accepting her situation with great dignity and courage, she was striving to fulfil her ambition of taking the degree denied to her on the grounds of race years earlier at the University of Cracow.
5. The writer was Ford Madox Ford, who was among the most loyal as he had been among the first of Pound's friends; in the twenties he was as penurious and as out of fashion as Pound.
6. If you are a student or a young penurious worker try this ruse a fellow student of mine developed.
7. In Rhodri's castoff clothes and worn shoes he looked like a penurious wandering scrivener of sixty; in truth he was barely forty, and had been a tall, strong man of his hands once, and would be as good again after a month of eating regularly, and nursing his frayed body and broken and blistered feet.
8. One farming grandfather is remembered as "open hearted, hospitable, a good sport", in contrast to his "stingy and penurious" second wife.