penurious vs poverty-ridden

penurious

adj
  • Impoverished; wanting for money. 

  • Miserly; excessively cheap. 

  • Not bountiful; thin; scant. 

poverty-ridden

adj
  • Suffering from poverty. 

  • During which one suffers or has suffered from poverty. 

  • Filled with or plagued by poverty. 

How often have the words penurious and poverty-ridden occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )