penuriousness

As I’ve pointed out before, accounts of the penuriousness of life on such an income invariably involve financial legerdemain.

Offended by such penuriousness, Michael Angelo demanded and received one hundred and forty ducats!

The penuriousness of this singular man seemed, however, to have for its object the indulgence of a systematic benevolence.

Therefore they were all the more embittered at the penuriousness they showed in the food, and many other matters.

There were no contending elements in his nature; no struggles of ambition; no strife of penuriousness; no battling of passion.