(a.) Free in giving; liberal in bestowing gifts and favors.
(a.) Plentiful; abundant; as, a bountiful supply of food.
Example Sentences:
(1) Saudi Arabia As one might imagine, Saudi television rather wants for the bounty we enjoy here - reality shows in which footballers' mistresses administer handjobs to barnyard animals, and all those other things which make living in the godless west such a pleasure.
(2) Bountiful by Todd Porter and Diane Cu (Stewart, Tabori and Chang)
(3) The bounty on his head seems to confirm the NTC's preference for Gaddafi's summary execution.
(4) In a memo sent out to the NFL's 32 teams, Goodell ordered owners to make sure their clubs are not offering bounties now.
(5) The US had offered a bounty of up to $10m for information leading to his arrest, putting him in the same echelon as IBaghdadi and Sirajuddin Haqqani, the leader of the Haqqani network, who is believed to be based in Pakistan.
(6) Just 53 people live on the islands, many descendents of the sailors behind the famous mutiny on the Bounty in 1790, but it is the marine life that attracted National Geographic’s Pristine Seas expedition .
(7) The government announced a 50m-rupee (£300,000) bounty on his head; the following year, the US priced him at $5m (£3.1m).
(8) She approached everything with Christmas-morning levels of excitement: the very fact that she was out in town, after dark, on a school night; the meal beforehand at Pizza Express, where – thrillingly – we saw people who were also going to see Jessie J and who waved at us; the unimaginable bounty of the merchandise stall; the crowd screaming; the fact that she had seen the support act, a briefly popular boyband called Lawson , on TV.
(9) Illegal bounty from the sea Facebook Twitter Pinterest The central and western Pacific is a rich fishing ground, providing an estimated 60% of the world’s tuna catch for a $7bn annual global market.
(10) And while plans for a spin-off movie based around bounty hunter Boba Fett appear to be on hold, there are increasingly powerful rumours that the greatest Star Wars icon of all time, Darth Vader himself, will appear in the upcoming Rogue One: A Star Wars Story .
(11) Vitt was aware of the bounties and, according to the league, later admitted he had "fabricated the truth" when interviewed in 2010.
(12) Disney and Lucasfilm also have a film about the youthful travails of Han Solo in the works, while a third spin-off film is rumoured to focus on bounty hunter Boba Fett.
(13) Picking up, it seems, from Private Eye's fortnightly teasing, by which Gordon Brown is depicted as the Supreme Leader of some decidedly half-cock Soviet-style state, here we see a heroic communist-style family, circa 1945, gazing into the bountiful lands of New Labour's next five year plan.
(14) Never needing to work again, he ploughed his bounty into various large-scale commercial properties then sailed around the world for 14 years with his wife, Julia.
(15) – sadistic mob boss Black Mask has placed a hefty bounty on the nascent superhero's head.
(16) Inside the Hark to Bounty pub in the Lancashire village of Slaidburn, I found taciturn young gamekeepers, cheeks flushed red from a day outdoors, quietly discussing their shoot by the open fire.
(17) He has eluded authorities since his 2001 escape from prison in a laundry truck, and has a $7m bounty on his head.
(18) In the space of five days, panic-stricken authorities have launched the biggest manhunt in modern times, placed a €4m bounty on his head – dead or alive – and thrown a security cordon around the capital not seen since the 2004 Olympics.
(19) Until recently, Ray Pool was the proud owner of a bountiful, lovingly tended orchard of peaches.
(20) The Linwood Street urban farm is now in its fourth planting season, producing a bounty of corn, squash and potatoes for local residents to harvest, again for free.
Penurious
Definition:
(a.) Excessively sparing in the use of money; sordid; stingy; miserly.
(a.) Not bountiful or liberal; scanty.
(a.) Destitute of money; suffering extreme want.
Example Sentences:
(1) But this is how we live even before we are forced, through penury to claim: fine dining on stewed leftovers, nursing our one drink on those rare social events, cutting our own hair, patchwork-darned clothes and leaky shoes.
(2) On the one hand, he genuinely sees himself as the great liberator of the poor, the man who wept at Britain’s modern-day penury on Glasgow’s Easterhouse estate; on the other, he is the champion of policies that have driven some of the poorest people in society into despair.
(3) Then we sit back and marvel that 3.6m households are "one push from penury ", not because of unemployment, but because wages are too low.
(4) The British Red Cross charity said such individuals should be allowed temporary leave to remain and work if they meet Home Office requirements , sparing people from years living in penury.
(5) That’s because, just as the earlier bailouts went to the banks not the country , and troika-imposed austerity has brought penury and a debt explosion, these demands are really about power, not money.
(6) And then, finally, laid low by strokes, penury, depression and ill health, Biggs back in Britain.
(7) In Cyprus , now poised to become one of the biggest experiments in global financial history, people know that penury is just around the corner.
(8) A recession may actually appear to rescue poor people from penury, simply by dragging down the benchmark of typical pay.
(9) Our landlord could double the rent tomorrow, one of us could be summoned to work in Stockholm or Scotland or Stockport, or we might find ourselves in financial penury.
(10) There are relatively few signs of the aching poverty that afflicts other parts of Latin America, though a developing world debt crisis drove many to penury at the beginning of this century.
(11) They bid for the World Cup knowing how workers are treated in their country – workers are dying, suffering injury, mental tortureand penury while waiting for the "catalyst" to change their miserable reality.
(12) "These policies will bring penury to Greeks for generations to come.
(13) This is the Tories' brave new world, "compassionate" in giving, "conservative" in lowering taxes, a system that failed miserably in the past and will surely condemn millions to penury in the future.
(14) The Rev Dr John Jegasothy, a former Tamil refugee and now an Australian citizen, says life on a bridging visa is enforced penury and a poverty made worse because of its interminable nature.
(15) There is charity, and sometimes state and local relief, but many a chronic health condition goes untreated, and penury abounds .
(16) The relations between landlord and tenant were circumscribed by the indebtedness of the former and the penury of the latter.
(17) At the age of 40 he began to write seriously, living in near-penury for years while sustaining an eccentric lifestyle, wearing silver spectacles and glycerine gloves (in bed), while writing with a "magic" glass egg on his desk, and chain-smoking like a devil.
(18) They would say that Miliband is taking the party back to the left and the bad old days of inefficiency, trade union power and frequent strikes, that he doesn't like or understand business, and that Britain would slide from prosperity to penury.
(19) It was also on the road to penury, thanks to Mutharika’s increasingly eccentric economic policies and his alienation of the foreign donors upon which Malawi relies .
(20) Its single currency has brought penury to half a continent.