penurious

adjective3

1. •
   Impoverished; wanting for money.

   • The poor penurious horde, naught in the cooking pot and naught in the belly.
2. •
   Miserly; excessively cheap.

   • The old man died a penurious wretch; eighty-thousand dollars in the mattress and as many holes in the roof.
3. •
   Not bountiful; thin; scant.

   • The penurious stew would have been more accurately labelled broth.