impecunious
adjective
having little or no money; penniless; poor.
impecuniosity
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a word derived from
impecunious.
Example Sentences
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Hollywood's swashbuckling monument to impecuniosity has been dead for ten years, but Daughter Deirdre Flynn, 24, seems to be upholding the family name.
From Time Magazine Archive
To help the family impecuniosity Shaw went to work at 15, rose to be a cashier before he decided to seek his literary fortune in London.
From Time Magazine Archive
Contrasted with the magnificence of the Habsburg Court, her impecuniosity is a greater hardship than it would be to an ordinary person, especially as she has five children to support.
From Time Magazine Archive
It must be admitted that impecuniosity is impartial, the peer and the peasant being equally open to its visits, and the Sovereign, under certain conditions, as liable to its influence as the subject.
From Curiosities of Impecuniosity by H. G. Somerville
“Truth is stranger than fiction,” and it follows, therefore, that such instances of self-abnegation induced by impecuniosity have been and will be found.
From Curiosities of Impecuniosity by H. G. Somerville
