Covetous vs Penurious - What's the difference?
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Inordinately desirous; excessively eager to obtain and possess (especially money); avaricious.
Miserly; excessively cheap.
Not bountiful; thin; scant.
Impoverished; wanting for money.
As adjectives the difference between covetous and penurious
is that covetous is inordinately desirous; excessively eager to obtain and possess (especially money); avaricious while penurious is miserly; excessively cheap.covetous
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(en adjective)- The old man died a penurious wretch; eighty-thousand dollars in the mattress and as many holes in the roof.
- The penurious stew would have been more accurately labelled broth.
- The poor penurious horde, naught in the cooking pot and naught in the belly.