penurious dans le dictionnaire Oxford-Hachette

anglais d'Amérique

Exemples monolingues (non-vérifiés par l'équipe de rédaction)

anglais
It was here, during the penurious period after the war, that he came to live and paint.
en.wikipedia.org
The message is clear: invest and save, supposedly guaranteeing a comfortable future or suffer in penurious misery in your old age.
www.terracestandard.com
Furthermore, as the size of the fair trade market grows, consumers are actually hurting the penurious producers they would like to help.
www.queensjournal.ca
Her father's untimely death put the family in a penurious situation.
en.wikipedia.org
The median income was a penurious $4500.
www.crikey.com.au
The poor, penurious chap is close to breaking point.
www.dailymail.co.uk
The results are now all too apparent in the shuffling, penurious masses on the streets.
www.dailymail.co.uk
Matching plugs were also manufactured that let tube sockets be used as 8-pin electrical connectors; penurious experimenters would sometimes salvage the base from a discarded tube for this purpose.
en.wikipedia.org
All the penurious penny pinchers do is create vacuums where essential work doesn't get done.
wcfcourier.com
Though penurious in his personal habits he was fond of attending sales, and was a keen bidder for any object that struck his fancy.
en.wikipedia.org

Voulez-vous ajouter des mots, des phrases ou des traductions ?

Proposez de créer une nouvelle entrée pour un mot.

Page en Deutsch | Ελληνικά | English | Español | Français | Italiano | Polski | Português | Русский | Slovenščina | Srpski