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penurious
vs
povertystricken
penurious
adj
Miserly; excessively cheap.
Not bountiful; thin; scant.
Impoverished; wanting for money.
povertystricken
How often have the words
penurious
and
povertystricken
occurred in a corpus of books?
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Google Ngram Viewer
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