Penury in a sentence as a noun

One way to solve South East crime and penury problems is to move these people away.

The upside is nice holidays; the downside is penury and food banks.

If your name was Nikola Tesla your end result would still be penuryIf you had been Tesla, your "end result" would be that you were Tesla.

It's a cruel world without money and no wonder we are all grabbing at whatever we can grab at driven by fear that one day we could end up in penury.

Once they are out of penury then religious obligations become a bane on the newly found freedom that comes with money so the fallout is obvious.

I've had to drain my retirement accounts, and it turns out that alimony/penury is not a valid excuse, so you pay the 10% penalty for early withdrawal.

It matters if it means our fully automated jobless future is penury and starvation instead of the post-scarcity Culture we're looking forward to.

To suggest that populations are helpless against governments that promptly borrow them into penury is as much magical thinking as the idea that you can just cut your way to prosperity.

... But his initiative also spelt the end of a diplomatic career under Portuguese dictator António de Oliveira Salazar, and the rest of his life was spent in penury.

Cuba and other socialist Western hemisphere states like Nicaragua and Venezuela have properly handled the pandemic, even while contending with the penury imposed by draconian USA economic sanctions.

I mean, this is not exactly something that I would see as tearing down Dickens, that is just having screwed childhood in way we like to pretend did not happened:> He briskly takes us through the story of the penury, the period in the debtors’ prison, the aborted education, the banishment, aged 10, to menial labour in Warren’s Blacking warehouse.

Penury definitions

noun

a state of extreme poverty or destitution; "their indigence appalled him"; "a general state of need exists among the homeless"

See also: indigence need pauperism pauperization