"penurious" meaning in English

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          "roman": "beden",
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          "word": "оскъден"
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          "lang": "Maori",
          "sense": "miserly",
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          "sense": "miserly",
          "word": "matamau"
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        "Not bountiful; thin; scant."
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      "roman": "beden",
      "sense": "miserly",
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      "sense": "miserly",
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      "sense": "miserly",
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      "sense": "miserly",
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      "sense": "miserly",
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      "roman": "skupój",
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