straitened (?.)
- Lenten
- Spartan
- abstemious
- ascetic
- austere
- badly off
- bound
- bounded
- conditioned
- confined
- copyrighted
- cramped
- desperate
- destitute
- disciplined
- distressed
- down to bedrock
- dwarfed
- dwarfish
- embarrassed
- exiguous
- feeling the pinch
- finite
- frugal
- hard pressed
- hard up
- ill off
- impecunious
- impoverished
- in Queer Street
- in desperate straits
- in extremis
- in extremities
- in narrow circumstances
- in reduced circumstances
- in straitened circumstances
- inadequate
- indigent
- insolvent
- insufficient
- jejune
- land-poor
- lean
- limited
- meager
- mean
- miserly
- moderated
- narrow
- necessitous
- needy
- niggardly
- on the edge
- oppressed
- out of pocket
- paltry
- parsimonious
- patented
- penniless
- pinched
- poor
- poorly off
- poverty-stricken
- prescribed
- proscribed
- puny
- qualified
- reduced
- restricted
- scant
- scanty
- scrawny
- scrimp
- scrimpy
- short
- short of cash
- short of funds
- short of money
- skimp
- skimpy
- slender
- slight
- slim
- small
- sorely pressed
- spare
- sparing
- squeezed
- starvation
- stingy
- stinted
- strait
- strapped
- stunted
- subsistence
- thin
- unmoneyed
- unnourishing
- unnutritious
- unprosperous
- up against it
- watered
- watery