Definitions for penuries

penuries pen·u·ry

Spelling: [pen-yuh-ree]
IPA: /ˈpɛn yə ri/

Penuries is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.

You can make 294 anagrams from letters in penuries (eeinprsu).

Definitions for penuries

noun

  1. extreme poverty; destitution.
  2. scarcity; dearth; inadequacy; insufficiency.

Origin of penuries

1400-50; late Middle English Latin pēnūria; akin to Greek peîna hunger, penía poverty

Examples for penuries

Relative obscurity and penury, her anthem claims, rule just as hard as the point-oh-oh-one percent realm of excess and access.

Had he learned to carp at the rich, and to make honesty the excuse for all penury?

If there were no penury and no pain, what would become of fortitude?

The life that passes in penury must necessarily pass in obscurity.

The Admiral had in one hour been reduced from opulence to penury.

They had lived as many had lived who have no different excuse to plead for their penury.

Or perhaps the plague of Strawberry Quick-flavored meth that was luring children into a life of addiction and penury.

Larry, it looks like traveling up the royal road you slashed through the forest of penury.

For the badge of penury is desire, the badge of wealth contempt.

Formerly he had never been alarmed by the penury of his little home.

Word Value for penuries
Scrable

11

Words with friends

13

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