#164: penurious

11/20/2015

I'm so curious
'bout her ways penurious
can't be furious

Ah, Waking Ned Devine... one of our all-time favorite films!
Eileen Dromey played Lizzie Quinn, the miserly, miserable spinster, the pivotal vote who gets "bumped off" at the film's brilliantly written and choreographed climactic scene!

DEFINITION of this 4-syllable adjective:

extremely stingy; parsimonious; miserly.
extremely poor; destitute; indigent.
poorly or inadequately supplied; lacking in means or resources.

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