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Which preposition to use with penurious
in Occurrences 2%
His mode of life, as usual, was miserable and penurious in the extreme.
near Occurrences 1%
He mentioned a respectable gentleman, who became extremely penurious near the close of his life.
than Occurrences 1%
It is not that we are poorer or more penurious than our ancestors, but that we have more wants than they, and that the new wants overshadow the old.