penuriousness
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As I’ve pointed out before, accounts of the penuriousness of life on such an income invariably involve financial legerdemain.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 10, 2024
At Ryanair headquarters, he cultivated a reputation for penuriousness, banning cover sheets on faxes and requiring employees to buy their own pens.
From BusinessWeek ● Sep. 2, 2010
For all his penuriousness, Russell does not hesitate to spend for new plant and equipment.
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It went on to become a symbol of penuriousness.
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It is France's penuriousness and meanness and her exaggerated thrift that stands most in the way of her material greatness now.
From Europe—Whither Bound? Being Letters of Travel from the Capitals of Europe in the Year 1921 by Stephen Graham