Definitions for penury

penury pen·u·ry

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

Penury is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.

You can make 74 anagrams from letters in penury (enpruy).

Definitions for penury

noun

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

Origin of penury

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

Examples for 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Word Value for penury
Scrable

11

Words with friends

13

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