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  • 21greed — Synonyms and related words: acedia, acquisitiveness, anger, autism, avarice, avariciousness, avaritia, avidity, avidness, careerism, covetousness, crapulence, crapulency, craving, cupidity, deadly sin, edacity, ego trip, egotism, envy, frenzy of… …

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  • 22meanness — Synonyms and related words: Lenten fare, abjectness, abominableness, atrociousness, austerity, authoritarianism, baseness, bearishness, beggarliness, bigotry, bitchiness, blind side, blind spot, blinders, cantankerousness, cheapness, churlishness …

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  • 23thrift — Synonyms and related words: austerity, austerity program, canniness, care, carefulness, chariness, economic planning, economicalness, economizing, economy, economy of means, false economy, forehandedness, frugality, frugalness, good management,… …

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  • 24need — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) n. necessity, requirement; desire, want, privation, lack, poverty; use. v. t. require, crave, claim, demand, yearn; lack, want. II (Roget s IV) n. 1. [Poverty] Syn. indigence, penury, pennilessness; see… …

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  • 25penury — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) n. poverty, lack, indigence, destitution, pauperism. II (Roget s IV) n. Syn. need, bankruptcy, destitution; see poverty 1 . See Synonym Study at poverty . III (Roget s Thesaurus II) noun The condition of …

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  • 26poverty — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) Lack of money Nouns 1. poverty, impecuniousness, indigence, penury, pauperism, destitution, want, poverty line or level; need, neediness; lack, necessity, privation, distress, difficulties; bad, poor, or …

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  • 27privation — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) n. want, loss, poverty, indigence; deprivation, bereavement, dispossession. II (Roget s IV) n. Syn. want, destitution, penury; see poverty 1 . III (Roget s 3 Superthesaurus) n. deprivation, need, want,… …

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  • 28stingy — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) adj. penurious, miserly, niggardly, near, tight, close; scanty, meager. See parsimony. Ant., generous. II (Roget s IV) modif. Syn. parsimonious, niggardly, miserly, penurious, close, closefisted, sordid …

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  • 29destitution — I (Roget s IV) n. Syn. indigence, want, privation; see poverty 1 . See Synonym Study at poverty . II (Roget s Thesaurus II) noun The condition of being extremely poor: beggary, impecuniosity, impecuniousness, impoverishment, indigence, need,… …

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  • 30frugality — I (Roget s IV) n. Syn. economy, thrift, carefulness, conservation, husbandry, management, prudence, saving, parsimony, parsimoniousness, miserliness, scrimping, stinginess, niggardliness, penuriousness, sparingness, penny pinching, cheapness*,… …

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