penurious
Don't have two nickels to rub together? You're penurious — a lovely long way of saying you're flat broke.
Penurious also means a general dislike of spending money. If someone accuses you of being cheap, tell them you prefer to be thought of as penurious. It sounds so much classier. It's related to a similar word, penury, which means "a state of extreme poverty."
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excessively unwilling to spend
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not having enough money to pay for necessitiessynonyms: hard up, impecunious, in straitened circumstances, penniless, pinchedpoorhaving little money or few possessions
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