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| ADJECTIVE: | 1. Having little or no money or wealth: beggarly, destitute, down-and-out, impecunious, impoverished, indigent, necessitous, needy, penniless, poor, poverty-stricken. Informal : broke, strapped. Idioms: hard up, on one's uppers. See RICH. 2. Ungenerously or pettily reluctant to spend money: cheap, close, close-fisted, costive, hard-fisted, mean2, miserly, niggard, niggardly, parsimonious, penny-pinching, petty, pinching, stingy, tight, tightfisted. See GIVE.
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