单词 | penuriously |
释义 | penuriously (once / 200328 pages) adv WORD FAMILY penurious: penuriously, penuriousness+/penury: penuries, penurious USAGE EXAMPLESThe funding simply wasn’t there, the hundreds of millions of surplus dollars he had penuriously withheld from dispensing to the state’s ailing cities notwithstanding. The Guardian(Mar 18, 2016) Generally, schools hire two kinds of adjuncts: the penuriously trapped who rely on their table-crumbs pay and those who have incomes elsewhere. Washington Post(Aug 24, 2014) According to Chalmers, the British government penuriously refused to pay the cost of the golden horseshoes. Campbell, Charles, History of the Colony and Ancient D...(2010) adv in a penurious manner they lived penuriously |
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