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Definition of penury in English: penurynoun ˈpɛnjʊriˈpɛnjəri mass nounThe state of being very poor; extreme poverty. he couldn't face another year of penury Example sentencesExamples - He was reduced to living in penury in miserable exile in France; and on his return to York he was imprisoned for three months.
- It was her penury and negligence that let the house deteriorate.
- Even in the middle of penury, dreams remain colourful.
- But despite his outstanding gifts he's soon in penury again because the crocodile he has adopted is scaring off potential clients.
- In overcoming that penury, modern technology as well as economic interrelations have been influential.
- In a globalized economy, it imposes penury on trading partners, especially the poorest countries.
- Having been reduced to penury, struggling to survive, they no longer serve as an effective political opposition.
- After slaving to bring up children and nursemaid a man while simultaneously working to boost the family's income, they are the ones left to live out a lonely and unglamorous old age in penury.
- He was not a poverty-stricken peasant's son looking to escape penury.
- I will reduce myself to penury to save you from the evils of gambling, even if it means winning millions of pounds.
- Living a life in penury, they have sold everything.
- If we all looked, acted, thought and behaved as badly as spammers do, our world would be reduced to desperate penury.
- It is a miracle that her flimsy frame has been able to survive the extremes of weather, utter penury and the cruel sneers of her snobbish compatriots during her hellish ordeal.
- Bastille Day in France commemorates the French Revolution and reminds us of one of the most unpleasant and blood-soaked regimes ever to have reduced a country to penury.
- Falling in love with a tea vendor could suit the infatuated young mind but when it comes to marriage she is able to visualise the agony of penury and gets out of the affair.
- It follows that you don't have to reduce yourself to utter penury.
- Perhaps it was unavoidable, yet it was a road that led past ruin, default and penury, through the plunder of Russia and the impoverishment of Russians.
- Price rises due to his stealth taxes have reduced thousands like me to utter penury.
- Now, as then, a government is reducing its citizens to penury as they are deprived of their income and homes.
- Women who believe they are in for a reasonable standard of living during widowhood, are to be step-by-step, reduced to penury.
Synonyms extreme/dire poverty, pennilessness, impecuniousness, impoverishment, indigence, need, neediness, want, destitution, privation, deprivation, hardship, beggary, bankruptcy, insolvency, ruin, reduced circumstances, straitened circumstances rare pauperism, pauperdom, mendicity
Origin Late Middle English: from Latin penuria 'need, scarcity'; perhaps related to paene 'almost'. Definition of penury in US English: penurynounˈpɛnjəriˈpenyərē Extreme poverty; destitution. he died in a state of virtual penury Example sentencesExamples - It was her penury and negligence that let the house deteriorate.
- But despite his outstanding gifts he's soon in penury again because the crocodile he has adopted is scaring off potential clients.
- It is a miracle that her flimsy frame has been able to survive the extremes of weather, utter penury and the cruel sneers of her snobbish compatriots during her hellish ordeal.
- It follows that you don't have to reduce yourself to utter penury.
- He was reduced to living in penury in miserable exile in France; and on his return to York he was imprisoned for three months.
- Living a life in penury, they have sold everything.
- Perhaps it was unavoidable, yet it was a road that led past ruin, default and penury, through the plunder of Russia and the impoverishment of Russians.
- Having been reduced to penury, struggling to survive, they no longer serve as an effective political opposition.
- Price rises due to his stealth taxes have reduced thousands like me to utter penury.
- In a globalized economy, it imposes penury on trading partners, especially the poorest countries.
- If we all looked, acted, thought and behaved as badly as spammers do, our world would be reduced to desperate penury.
- I will reduce myself to penury to save you from the evils of gambling, even if it means winning millions of pounds.
- After slaving to bring up children and nursemaid a man while simultaneously working to boost the family's income, they are the ones left to live out a lonely and unglamorous old age in penury.
- Even in the middle of penury, dreams remain colourful.
- Women who believe they are in for a reasonable standard of living during widowhood, are to be step-by-step, reduced to penury.
- Now, as then, a government is reducing its citizens to penury as they are deprived of their income and homes.
- In overcoming that penury, modern technology as well as economic interrelations have been influential.
- Bastille Day in France commemorates the French Revolution and reminds us of one of the most unpleasant and blood-soaked regimes ever to have reduced a country to penury.
- Falling in love with a tea vendor could suit the infatuated young mind but when it comes to marriage she is able to visualise the agony of penury and gets out of the affair.
- He was not a poverty-stricken peasant's son looking to escape penury.
Synonyms dire poverty, extreme poverty, pennilessness, impecuniousness, impoverishment, indigence, need, neediness, want, destitution, privation, deprivation, hardship, beggary, bankruptcy, insolvency, ruin, reduced circumstances, straitened circumstances
Origin Late Middle English: from Latin penuria ‘need, scarcity’; perhaps related to paene ‘almost’. |